The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-03-19

hospitals during the war was GAG ,712.
which embraced nine-tenths of all the
wounded, according to the surgeon
generals estimate. There is no way
OF arriving at the exact number of
killed and wounded, but the hospital
records are substantially accurate,
and the losses in minor engage
ments for which no official returns
of the casualties were made will un
doubtcdly increase the total consider
ably.
at Gettysburg, which has been
termed the greatest Of historic battles,
the Federal loss is stated ct 2,0G3
killed, 14,492 wounded, and s, ,435 cap
turcd or missing. The mortally
wounded are as usual included in the
1882 reported simply as wounded,
but this does not fix the actual loss of
life, and Lieut.-Co VIM. F. Fox,
United States army, has examined the
rolls of each regiment which fought at
Gettysburg and taking name by name
he has ascertained that 5,291 men
lost their lives on that field and the
Second Corps (Hancock' 81 Sustained
loss of 1928 in killed and died of
wounds, or nearly one-fourth Of the
total loss thus ascertained. 1t was
there that this famous corps had the
hardest fighting in its experience and
won its greatest laurels, and it was
there they met and repulsed Piokett's
magnificent charge, where the fighting
was deadly in the extreme. The per.
oentage of loss in the First Minnesota
regiment was without an equal in the
records of modern warfare. Only 1853
men from 8 companies were in action
on July End, aud the total casualties
were 2l5, of whom II were killed and
168 wounded, making82 per cent. o The
Federal regiment sustaining the great
est loss in battle during the entire war
was the Fifth New Hampshire
which lost 295 men, killed or NOR
tally wounded in action, from 1861 to
1865.
The distinction must be drawn be-
tween q percentage Of loss and the
greatest loss in any given battle, de-
pendent upon the number Of men
carried into action. The several loss-
es are not always the largest numer-
ically. Take the Twen .y-six.A North
Carolina, Pettigrew's brigade, whose
loss at Gettysburg was s6 killed and
502 wounded, making total OF 5s8, in
addition to 12O reported as missing,
who were lost in Pickett's charge,
nearly all Of whom must have been
killed or wounded, as they fell into the
enemy's hands and were not included
in the hospital report. The casual
ties were 708 out Of 800 who were
present, and this loss occurred mostly
in the first days fight, which is an al
most unexampled record. The par
centage Of loss in the Twenty-sixth
North Carolina at Gettysburg was 71.7
which is the third highest percentage
in the Confederate army.
The First Texas in the battle of
Antietam (Sharpsburg) carried only
226 men in action, and the loss was
10 killed and 141 wounded, which is
1878 per cent, the highest percentage
on record. The Twenty.frst Georgia
ct Second Manassas, August 1881,
1862, with 242 men in action, sost
38 killed and 146 wounded, or 76 per
cent.
The Palmetto Sharpshooters at Fra
zier's farm, June 30, 1862, with 375
men in action, lost 80 killed and 215
wounded, or 67.7 per cent.
The Sixth South Carolina at Seven
Pines, May 81, 1862, with 521 men in
action, lost 88 killed and 181 wounded,
or SIG per cent.
The first South Carolina Rifles
(Orr's Regiment) at Gaines Mill, with
537 men in action, lost 81 killed and
225 wounded, or 56.9 per cent.
Anderson's South Carolina brigade
afterwards Jenkins and then Brat
ton's) in the "Seven Days Around
Richmond" with ,250 men in action,
lost 1856 killed and 639 wounded, 13 |
missing, or 62.9 per cent. This less
occurred in tho two battles of Gaines
Mill and Frazier's Farm.
Longstreet's Division (Anderson'
Pryor's, Wilcox's and Featherstone's
brigades) during the Seven Days Bat
ties, lost at Gaines Mill and Frazier's
Farm, 766 killed, 3,435 wounded and
237 missing; total, 4,438 out Of 1881
engaged, or 50.2 per cent. Nor was