The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-13
SLAIN N GREAT BATTLES.
Loss of Life Not Heavy In the
Transvaal War
A RUNNING COMPARISON
Kitchener Destroyed $1,000 Human
Souls In a Day-A Comparison Of
the Fiercest Battles of the World
The Matter of Workmanship.


The Matter of Workmanship.
In proportion to the number of men
engaged upon both sides there have
been practically no marked losses OF
life in the Transvaal campaign, says
the Chicago Times-Herald. The forces
of England in South Africa are rapid.
ly approaching 600 in number The
highest estimate placed upon the size
Of the Transvaal army is $4,000. Eng
ishmen and Beers have confronted
each ether in battle since October II
The number of English killed, wound.
ed and missing or taken prisoners
does not yet exceed 10000 In all prob.
ability, owing to their intrenched posi-
lions and mountain emDdr,lements
which surround them the Beers have
net lost over two-tairds this uumbcr.
1t is fair to suppose that the total
losses on both sides in i20 days of
fierce campaignnS do not exceed IL
600 men. The killed on both sides do
not number 1,500. This is q merciful
war so far as taking human life is
concerned, just as all war is beneficial
in it's destruction of waste forces and
Vitalizing power upon the best which
survives. The words carnage and
slaughter" have no real place so far
in the Transvaal fighting. Why, Kit
chener, on one day alone-Septembe
2, 1S9S-destroyed at Omdurman, H.
GOO derVishe Uncomfortable ignorant
fanatics, who thought they had right
to live. That is slaughter.
Let us see how men killed each 9th
err in the past when firearms were not
modern or did not exist, and when
the opportunity to kill in battle was
much greater than it is at the present
time. Edward III and Philip VI tilted
with each other at Crecy August &c,
1886, and the killed and wounded and
prisoners amounted in all to $4,000
men. The English. although victori
Gus, lost $4,000. This was right royal
fighting and would have given war
correspondents remarkable material
for bloody dispatches At Hohenlin-
den December 8, 1900, the French loss
was approximately 5000, while the
Austrians, in killed and wounded lost
5000 and $4,000 prisoners We're taken.
Thus the killed and wounded of that
one day equaled the total losses in
the Transvaal war of both sides in 120
days. One might infer that the marks.
manship of 1899 and 1900 was of poor
quality. This is not true. The fact is
chat armies meet less in hand-to-hand
conflicts today than ever before. At
Marengo, June IA, 1900, the French
loss was 1000 and the Austrian loss
between 10000 and 10000 or 1900
in all which figures for a single TWEEN.
e G,~l,+ l.,
Ting at the Tugela and Modder rivers
seem like slIirmish. But greater car
mage than this has been recorded At
Charlottesville, May 2, and 4, 1868,
the Union loss was 5000 the Confed-
crate loss 12,2S1. In other words 2S,-
300 men were put out of active SER
vice in three days. At Chickamauga,
September 10 and 20, 1868, the Union
loss was 1881 and the Confederate
loss 1884, an average of about H.
Geo day. Still human life is of more
value in 1900 than it was in 1863. Tibet
work value of a man is greater today
than it was then, and it is said to be
a law of the Fates that as work val
ue increases the mortality wrought in
warfare decreases. Which may or may
not be so.
July 1, and 8, 1868, at Gettysburg,
the Union loss was, killed 1884,
wounded 1900, missing 1894, and
the Confederate loss 21,621, so that
there was an average loss per day on
that battlefield of 1900 men. AT An
tietam September II, 1862, the Union
loss was 12,469 Confederate loss 5000
to $4,000, or total of at least 81 500.
The second Bull Run was fought on
August 20 and 80, 1862. The Union
forces lost 5000 men and the Con
federates $500. In the battle of the
Wilderness, May 5 and 6, 1864, the
Union side was crippled by the loss
of $4,000 men and the Confederate by
a loss of 1000 men. The Germans
and French did equally as well at
Marsla-Tour August 16. 1870. The
German loss in killed and wounded
was 10000 The French loss in
killed, wounded and prisoners was IT,
900. One regiment lost 40 officers and
1,7S6 men, but this regimental loss
does not compare with the Union loss
at the time of the first discharge Of
the Confederate batteries and musket-
ry at the battle of the Wilderness,
when it is estimated that in five min
utes 5000 Union soldiers We're wound.
ed and killed. Gravelotte, August IS,
1870, was carnage to be remem-
bered. The Germans left upon the
field 20,159 dead or wounded men. The
French lost between 10000 and $4,000.
Pleyna, in the SHOWS of the Bull
garian mountains, was battlefield
in July, 1877, where the mountain side
ror streams of blood, and Turk and
Mascovite died with their set teeth
ij-tl, Il e5ch others flesh. The total
sa losses in ten days fighting
CSC The Turkish losses have
.et t-f-t ace arately known. They
l- es.imated at 10000.
ta not least of the fierce bat
world where life was treat
DaEble comes Waterloo, June
i 1915 The loss of the English and
r. ans was $4,000 and of the
French $4,000. Wellingtons army
could not have survived the ravish-
Is Of the French guns but for the sup
port of the allies, and England as an
Empire has never come so near an
Inhalation on the field of battle as it