The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-08

icle the deeds of our heroes, and to
repeat "the simple annals of the
poor?" Shall a State that sent tens
of thousands of her best and brav-
est to the great harvest of death
and suffering, when nation was
heaving under the throes of a mighty
revolution, be unable to produce one
writer to embalm forever those glor-
ious deeds which would have pro-
voked the Tyre of the blind bard of
Chios to yet loftier and more entranc-
ing sounds, or in the Medieval days.
would have sent the Minnesingers over
Europe to celebrate their praise.
1 thought then as l think now that
it is all important that North Caro-
lima should have a one volume his
tory octave, and with some 800 pages,
of the people, and that it should be
as far as possible built upon the plan
of John Richard Green's one volume
History of the English People" the
most extraordinary and interesting
one volume history written since
Thucidides-a work Of positive genius
Tho man who shall write such a
work should be very busy now in
gathering the material necessary to
the preparation of such a greatly
needed work-one for the library. the
higher schools, the desks of the men
of business.
Not long since I referred to heavy
losses in battles in the past that
eclipsed any losses that were sus-
tanned in the great war for Second
independence on the part of the
South. 1t will interest some readers
perhaps to have some additional loss
and French $4,000 G704) total loss
$1,000. Total percentage of loss 26
percent. Leuthen, Austrians, $4,000.
Prussians 10000 G757) total loss IA
per cent. Austrian loss 10000. Prus
sian 5000. Zorndorf, Prussians 49,,
go, Russians $4,000. Prussian loss
1000, Russian 20.000-total $4,000.
Total percentage 38 per cent G758)
Rivoli, 1884, French $4,000, loss A.
500; Austrian $4,000. loss 10000
percentage 80. Auestadt, 1906,
French $4,000, loss $500; Prussians,
$4,000, loss 5000, percentage %. The
French whipped but lost 33 per cent.
Aspern, 1903, French $4,000, loss
$4,000; Austrians. $4,000, loss 20,-
900, percentage 26 per cent. Boro-
dino. 1912. French $4,000, loss 80
000 Russians $4,000, loss $4,000,
percentage % per cent. Waterloo.
1915, Allies 100000. loss "a per cent:
French 10000, loss $4,000, percentage
mans 10000 loss $500; French 9S.-
900, loss 1900 total loss 10 per cent.
Plevna, 1877, Turks 10000. loss A.
300; Russians 10000 loss 1900; per-
centage %. The British loss at Font
ENJOY in 1745. was "a per cent; at
Assage in 1903, "a per cent; at Tai
avera, 1909, 80 per cent; Albuera.
1911, loss As per cent; Barossa, 1911,
q per cent: Quatre Bras, 1915. 20
per cent Waterloo, 1915, 29 per cent:
Tnkermann, 1854. 81 per cent.
Next / give some Confederate and
Federal losses. Shiloh, 1862, Confed-
srates had 10000 men, Federals S.
900, F'ederals lost 10000, Confeder-
ates 5000. percentage 20: at Malvern
Hill the Federals lost $500, Confeder-
etes $500, percentage s. Second
Manassas, 1862, Confederates had So
900. lost 5000; F'ederals, 10000. loss
1900. percentage. IL Sharpsburg,
1862. Confederates had 41,000 Greatly
not more than $4,000. if so manv).
loss $500. Federals, $1,000. loss H.
40. percentage. II At Fredericks-t
burg the Confederate had 10000, loss
4,224, per cent. loss; Federals 120.-
900, loss 12.747, Chickamauga 1863.
q per cent. loss. Chancellorsville.