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Facts and Figures,

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fought out by their grandfathers for
the salvation of the American Repub-
TIC and the cause of liberty.
Look over these dreadful figures,
young man, and consider the awful
significance of the following facts:
Official returns show that about
100000 soldiers enlisted during the
war In response to the successive calls
OF President Lincoln, and of his num-
Der 1S6,O97 were colored troops.
Reports show hat the Northern and
Southern armies met in over 1000
sklrmlshes and battles. In 14S of
these conflicts the loss on the Federal
side was over 500 men, and in at least
ten battles over 10000 men were re-
ported lost on each side. The append
ed list shows that the combined losses
OF the Federal and Confederate forces
IN killed, wounded, and missing in
the following engagements we're:
Shiloh, $4,000; Antietam, 5000;
Stone River, $1,000; charlottesville,
2stO0; Gettysburg, $4,000; Chicka-
manga. $4,000; McClellan's Peninsula
campaign, $4,000; Grants Peninsula
campaign, $50, 900; and Sherman's cam
paign, $4,000.
Official statistics show that of 3,OOO,-
900 men enlisted there were killed in
battle, 44,23S; died of wounds, 46, 2O5;
died of disease, 1876, 21O; died of u n
known causes, 24,1S4; total, 3O3, S43.
This includes only those whose death
while in the army had been actually
proven. To this number should be
added-frst, &c, 900 men who are known
to have died while in the hands of the
enemy as prisoners of war, and many
others in the same manner whose
deaths are unrecorded; second, a fair
percentage of the 2O5, 794 who are put
down on the official reports as desert
ers and missing in action, for those
who participated in the war know that
men frequently disappeared who, it
was certain, had not deserted, yet could
not otherwise be officially accounted
for; third, thousands who are buried
in private cemeteries all over the
North, who died while at home on fur
Tough.
The nations dead are buried in
s~eventy-three cemeteries, of which
only twelve are in the Northern States.
Among the principal ones in the North
are Cypress Hill, with it's 3,7S6 dead;
Firms Point, N. j., which contains the
re1sains of 1914 unknown dead; Get
tysburg, Pa, with it's 1867 known
and 1908 unknown dead; Mound City,
ILL.,, with 2,505 known and 2,721 I'M
known graves; Philadelphia, with 1900
dead; and Woodlawn, Elmira, N. Y,
with it's $500 dead.
In the South, near the scenes of ter
rible conflicts, are located the largest
repositories of the nations heroic
dead:
Arlington, Va, 1924, of which 4,319
Beaufort, S. S., 9,2O1, of which 4,4O3
are unknown.
Chalmette, La, 1871, of which
1914 are unknown.
Chattanooga, Tenn, 1862, of which
1914 are unknown.
Fredericksburg, Va, 1921, of which
zoos are unknown.
Little Rock, Ark, $500, of which
2,307 are unknown.
City Point, Va, 5,122, of which 1874
are unknown.
Marietta, Ga, 1O,151, of which 1853
are unknown.
Memphis, Tenn, 16,997, of which
8,S17 are unknown.
Nashville, Tenn, 1856, of which
400 are unknown.
Poplar Grove, Va, $50, of which
4,001 are unknown.
Richmond, Va, 6,542, of which
$500 are unknown.
Salisbury, N. c., 1879, of which
1902 are unknown.
1Stone River, Tenn, 5,6O2, of which
2BS are unknown.
V%icksburg, Miss, 10000, Of which
1904 are unknown.
Antietam, Nd, 4,671, of which 1910
are unknown.
Winchester, Va, 1859, of which
1855 are unknown.
In all 100000 men who fought for
the stars and stripes find guarded
graves in our national cemeteries.
Two cemeteries are mainly devoted to
the brave men who persisted in the
loathsome prisons of the same nam
-Andersonville, Ga, which contains
1874 graves, and Salisbury, with its
1926 dead, of which 1902 are I'M
known.
Of the vast number who are inferred
in our national cemeteries, 275,000
sleep beneath the soil of the Southern
States, and 145, 600 rest in graves mark
ed unknown"
The total number of men furnished
to the Federal army by the United
States during the war, under all calls,
was 2,6SS,523. The total number of
colored troops in the Northern army
was 123,156. The heaviest loss by dis
ease was suffered by the colored troops.
While but 2,9G7 died in action and of
wounds. the enormously large number
Of 26.3O1 died of disease. Among the
white troops the proportion of deaths
in action and from wounds to the
dAaths from disease was about one to
two; among the colored troops as n
to eight. OF the colored troops enlist
ed one out of every seven died OF
disease. The proportion among the
white troops was one to fifteen.