The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-06-30
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS
By J. L. POWER.
BY ]. L. POWER.

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manga, Sept 1920, 1868: Killed, 10
wounded, 1O3; missing, 10; total, 1872.
PERCENTAGE OF LOSSES IN PARTICULAR
ENGAGEMENTS.
Sixth Mississippi, at Shiloh: Present,
425; killed, 81; wounded, $50. Per cent.
of loss, 1905.
Sixteenth Mississippi, at Antietam
Present, 1898; killed, 27; wounded, 1T.
Per cent. of loss, 6S.1O.
Twenty-ninth Mississippi, at Chicka.
manga: Present, 1856; killed, 3S; wound
ed, 1856. Per cent. of losss 52.7.
Eighth Mississippi, at Stone River:
Present, 2s2; killed, 20; wounded, 113.
Per cent. All.
Eighteenth Mississippi, at Antietam:
Present. 1856; killed, 10; wounded, 70.
Per cent. 44.6.
Featherston's Mississippi Brigade, in
Seven Days Fight, in the two actions
at Gaines Mill and Glendale: Present,
1850; killed, lis; wounded, $40; missing,
9. Per cent, 1913.
Compared with this style of war, the
battles In South Africa are mere
skirmishes.
Gettysburg was the greatest battle of
the civil war; Antietam was the blood
lest.
The largest assembled by the Con-
federates was at the Seven Days; by
the Federals, at the Wilderness.
Gettysburg may be considered the
greatest battle for various reasons.
The strategetic issues involved were the
most important; it was the turning
point in the fortunes of the Confed-
crates. The contending armies were
not only larger, but were at their best
in point of discipline and experience,
while the loss of life exceeded that OF
any other battlefield of the war.
Antietam was the bloodiest battle.
More men were killed on that one day
than on any other one day of the war.
There were greater battles, with
greater loss of life, but they were not
fought out in one day as at Antietam.
At Gettysburg, Charlottesville and
Spottsylvania the fighting covered three
days or more. At the Wilderness, Cold
Harbor, Shiloh, Stone River, Chicka-
mauga and Atlanta the losses were
divided between two days of fighting;
but, at Antietam, the bloody work
at sunrise, and by 4 o'clock
that afternoon it was over.
At the Seven Days battle, Lees army
numbered "a, 1873 effective men actually
engaged, exclusive of non-combatants.
There were present 1914 regiments and
10 battalions of infantry; 8 regiments
and 8 battalions of cavalry, and SO
batteries of light artillery-equivalent,
in all, to 800 regiments. The casualty
lists show that each of these commands
was engaged, and they specify the loss
in each. It was q grand army, COM
posed of the flower of Southern man
hood, and Lee never led its like again.
At the Wilderness Gen. Grants army,
the Ninth corps, numbered
11s, 769 effective men, and S16 pieces OF
artillery. 1t included 236 regiments
and 8 battalions of infantry; So regi-
ments of cavalry, and "a batteries OF
light artillery. They were veteran
regiments, whose riven banners had
waved amid the smoke of many hard
fought fields
The foregoing is obtained from "Fox's
LOSSES" a large and very
work, published several years
lgo, and which this writer found m
Iep. S. D. Lees war library at Colum-
ous. Cut 1t out for your scrap-book.
The Pythians of Meridian are about
% erect handsome temple. 1t will be
our stories. the front being of gray
yranite and plessed brick, with stone
The first floor viii be for
torres, the second for Offices, the third
or lodge purposes, and there will be
DOT garden for summer entertainments.