The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-04

lost but % per cent. little more than
half of the loss of the one North
Carolina brigade.
1 was in error in stating some time
ago that Pettigrew's brigade lost more
men at Gettysburg than Pickett's en-
lire division. That was not correct
and l very WILLINGLY give the correc-
tion. Pettigrew had 1900 and lost
1.105-over half. Pickett had 1900
and lost 1857. OK little over one-fourth.
] get my figures from my friend,
Captain William p. Bond. of Scotland
Neck. n. c.. author of that capital
and important large pamphlet, of
nearly 100 pages. entitled" Pickett or
Pettigrew?" Get it and study it. 1t
costs but 50 cents. Write to him as
given above. Let us help on the good
work of publishing the truth.
In this connection, l will refer to
some other figures. Representative
! Warnock. of Ohio, gave some sat<tics
concerning the losses in the great war
in speech in the United States House
of Representatives some time ago. He
stated there were 1882 engagements
into which at lease a regiment was en-
gagged on either side. There were
liz general engagements. in which
the loss on one side or the other ex-
ceeded 500 killed ana wounded. In
Guiding both sides hale million men
were killed or mortally wounded on
the battlefield. and million perman-
emily disabled.
THE losses are compared with those
in European wars. In the famous
charge of the Light Brigade at Balak-
lava. there was a loss of 247 out of
673. or 36.7 per cent. There were $50
regiments in the American warts
on each side-that lost over 40 per
cent In the Franco-Prussan war the
greatest loss of any regiment in any
engagement was that of the Third
Westphalian, at Mars La Tour, 49.4
per cent. In tho American war 120
regiments, of both sides, lost more
than SO per cent. of the number en-
gaged-some as high as 60, 20. and rs
per cent.-and one on each side lost
over 80 per cent"
AT the disastrous, decisive battle OF
Waterloo. French and English lost
each about $4,000 in killed and
wounded, of from 80 to 80 per cent.
do not know what the losses Of
Butcher, the Prussian, was, who came
to Wellington's relief and saved him
from a great defeat. AT Leipsic. a
very desperately contested battle, Ma
poleon had $4,000 men and the allies
$50, 900. Losses about equal-40,0 600
on each side. The first MINNESOTA re-
giment is given as losing 1913 per cent.
Dy Mr.. NacnOcK. 1t loSt zl9 men Kill
ed and wounded. Only II escaped. It
was at Gettysburg. OF the famous
North Carolina 10th. at Gettysburg, of
Pettigrews brigade, Mr.. Warnock
said, that he regarded it as one of
the most remarkable instances in all
history" and explained: THAT regi-
ment was $40 strong. 1t had sc killed
and 502 wounded. making a total Of
; 5SS, or III per cent. That was on
the first days battle. But the most
remarkable part of it was that this
regiment on the third" the remand
er of what he said 1 failed to preserve.
Mrs. F. B. Galloway has written a
book called Charm and Courtesy in
Conversation If really meritorious
it should be very widely <ead.
question arises, first. what is CONVEX
sation, and secondly, does it exist now
to any appreciable extent? Who con-
verses? The editor. l suppose it is,
of the New York Saturday Review"
a publication, | take leave to say that
is more enjoyable and profitable to a
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