Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-08-05
STATISTICS OF THE WAR.
Statement Of Forces and Losses on Each
Side In the Great Struggle. s


Some time ago the New Orleans
Picayune printed statistics showing
that in the Civil War the losses of the
Confcderates in killed werein proper
tion greater than were those of the
Federals.
This statement was questioned on
the ground that the Federal armies
were made up in the aggregate of
nearly five times the number of men
possessed by the Confederates, and
that therefore the largest army
should naturally have suffered the
greatest loss in battle. 1t was con-
tended, on the other hand, that the
smaller army, in order to stand
against the greater, was compelled
to fight with more desperation and
daring, and that therefore its men
were subject To greater loss. Mere
over, any force fighting at large
odds would have to endure the fire
of great number of missiles, and
this would expose it to greater loss.
Unfortunately, many of the Con-
federate war records were lost or de-
stroyed in the evacuation of and re-
treat from Richmond, and, therefore,
the Confederate returns are not COM
plete and no accurate account is
available. The war department at
Washington, which has charge of all
the Confederate war records, has
recently begun the work of complet-
ing, as far as possible, the Confederate
men, and call has been made which
should be promptly responded to,
asking Confederate survivors and
State authorities possessing muster
rolls and other data of the sort, to
send them, either as loan or a gift,
to the war department at Washing
ton, so that they may be copied
and used to supply the lost records.
So far as the figures are available
to-day, The Ricayune repeats, with
additions, the figures printed by it
Wednesday.
The figures in regard to the Union
army are taken from the "Statistical
Record" by Capt. Frederick Phis-
terer, then of the army, published by
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York,
1888, and declared to be compiled
from army orders, registers of regu-
lars and volunteers, reports of the
adjutant general of the army, and
from those of the provost marshal
general of the army, the "Medical
History of the Rebellion" and other
sources.
AS to the Union forces in the field,
the summary of the men furnished by
and credited to the various States by
the adjutant generals Office is given
by States, and it shows, inclading
Indians and negroes, total of
2,772,4OS men and money commuta-
tion allowed by the draft law, to
represent S6,72 men, making an az
gregate of men represented to be
2,S59,132.
Of Indian troops there were
1880, and of negroes there were 1885,
O97, all of whom are included in the
figures of 2,722,4O8. There were
2,O47 regiments of all arms. After
citing in detail the figures in the re-
ports of the adjutant general, of the
provost marshal general, Capt. Phis-
terer, gives the following as the most
complete and reliable statement:
Killed in battle. 44,23S
Died of wounds. .......... ..... 40, ,20I |
Suicide, homicide and execution. 52G
Died of disease. ........ 1856 PIG |
Died in Southern prisons. ..... "a, 1874 |
Iotal. al.......... ..304 ,3GS |
VI the negro troops included in
the above, 1,514 were killed in battle,
1,760 died from wounds, 29,2l2 died
from disease, 837 died in prison, and
81 from other causes.
The enlistment of foreigners in
the Federal army are thus given:
British Americans. s........... 53,5OO |
i'uS' 4D,DUO
h'l oFHclS. ............ 14,3OO |
Aggregate .......... .... .40l, 900 |
The deficiency in the Confederate
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