The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-07-08
STATISTICS OF THE WAR.
Statement OF Forces and Losses on Each
Side In the Great Struggle.

| Statement or Forces and Losses on Eaci
Side In the Great Struggle.
Some days ago the Picayune print.
ed statistics showing that in the Civil
War the losses of the Confcderates il
killed were in proportion greater than
were those Of the federals.
This statement was questioned or
the ground that the federal armies
we're mede Up in the aggregate Q!
nearly five times the number of men
possessed by the Confederates, and
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. Moreover, any force
fighting at large odds would have TO
endure the fire of great number Of
missiles, and this would expose sit to
greater loss.
Unfortunately, many of the Confed-
crate war records we're 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 avail
able. The war department at Wash
ington, which has charge of all the
Confederate war records, has recently
begun the work of completing as far
as possible, the Confederate records
as to numbers and losses Of men, and
call has been made which should be
promptly responded to, asking Con-
federate survivors and State authori-
ties possessing muster rolls and other
data of the sort, to send them, either
as loan or gift, to the war depart
ment at Washington, 80 that they may
be copied and used to supply the lost
records. So far as the figures are
available today, The Picayune re-
peats with additions the figures print
ed by it last Wednesday.
The figures in regard to the union
army are taken from the Statistical
Record" by Capt. Frederick Phister-
er, then Of the army, published by
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York,
1883, and declared to be compiled
from army orders, registers of regu-
lars and volunteers, reports Of the
adjutaut general of the army, and
from those Of the provost marshal
general Of the army, the "DIedical
History Of the Rebellion" and other
sources.
AS to the union forces in the
field, the summary Of the men fur
nished BY and credited to the various
States by the adjutant generals Office
is given by States, and it shows,
including Indians and negroes, total
of 2, 2,772,4Os men and money commu-
tation allowed by the draft law, to
represent s6,72s men, making an
aggregate OF men represented to be
1853, 1872.
Of Indian troops there were $3.50
eud of negroes there were 186, ,O97, ell
Of whom are included in the figures Of
2,722,4 ,408. There were 2,O47 regi-
ments Of all arms. After citing in
detail the figures in the reports Of the
adjhtant general, Of the provost mar
sinai gouersi, Capt. Phisterer gives the
following as the most complete and
reliable statement:
Killed in battle 44.238
Died Of wounds. 40 2O5
Suicide, homicide and execution 526
Died Of disease. j. :. 1876, ZIG
Died in southern prisons. -. "a, 1874
Total. :. -. .3O4, 1863
OF the negro troops included in the
above, 1914 were killed in battle,
1,76O died from wounds, 29,212 died
from disease, S37 died in prison, and
81 from other causes.
The enlistment Of foreigners in the
federal army are thus given: