The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-31
LETTERS FROM THEPEoPLE
Losses in Civil War Greater In Proportion
Than Those In Manchuria
To the Editor of The Globe:

To the Editor of The Globe:
Will YOU allow a surviving soldier of the
War of the Rebellion in this country a
little space in your valuable paper to, as
mildly as the aggfayation Will permit,
protest against the course OF The Ploneer
Press and other radical pro-JapaneSe
American newspapers in their comments
and conclusions in connection with the
war in Manchuria, more particularly with
reference to the fighting qualities shown
by the opposing forces.
Tt is not my purpose to criticise these
papers for taking sides with Japan as
against Russia. but when they deny his
tory as they have, and that at the ex-
penSe of the American soldiers OF S6l-65
in their exploitation of the heroism of the
Japanese soldier, it is time to cry halt
Especial objection is made to the claims
of these papers with reference to the
engagements at Liau-yang and those fol-
lowing later (still undecided) between that
point and Mukden, where the fighting as
they summed it up was the most desper-
ate and destructive in modern warfare,
A glance at official figures Will SHOW the
falsifv of this claim. The real battle OF
Iiau-yang covered three days as did the
battle of Gettysburg: The Japanese army my
at Liau-yang numbered about Z4o ooo
ported his Losses there at about 1S.0Oo.
have not the exact figures now. The Union
army at Gettysburg numbered less than
100,0 900 men, about 9S.Vo0 IN rouna mum.
bers. and its losses in the three days OF
the battle, official history of the war, were
0,451.
Spottsylvania, in 1864 covered ten Gays, 1
and Russians between Liau-yang ana
Mukden Gen. Grant, when he commenced
his campaign against the ConfederateS on
May 8. 1854 had about lSo,0oo men iI4 OF an an
lighting either in the wilderness or
S1oftsyivania. and the Confederates about
loo. GOO. Reports credit both the japanese
- l@As~- low nIrY ni ~
forced between the conclusion of the fight,
ing at Liau-yang. and its capture ana ana
the resumption of fighting between that
point and Mukden. If so. the TWO armies
must have aggregated about 100000 men,
very nearly equally divided between the
two. Field Marshal Oyama officially re-
ports the japanese losses In these engage
ments at Is. 6o5; The losses OF the Union
as reported in the official history OF the
war. were &c, 065.
have not seen the official figures of
Cen. Kuropatkin of the Russian losses
during these two battles but as the Jap
anese were on the offensive at Liau-yang
and the Russians in the later lighting, the
losses of the two armies could not nave
differed greatly. This being true, then the
losses of the two armies in these two
fights were 81, 600 in round numbers.
THE Union losses at Gettysburg, the
wilderness and Spottsylyania, covering
the same number of days fighting, We're
Sc. .522, official figures. The Confederate
iesses' in these battles were smaller than
the Union, but large enough to make the
syoregate losses OF the two armies fully
16o, 900, as against 81. 600 in the Man
churian battles, and this, while the num-
her of men engaged in the American war
were less than one-haf as strong.
tao;r7 at home The principle of that
proyerb is recommended to the consider
stion of American newspapers. which. like
the Pioneer Press, in efforts to exploit
the fiehtiDe. qualities of the Japanese ig
more the deeds of their. own countrymen
to do so. James y. WOOD.