The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-18

or dying in the American Civil War
to every man who fought in the
American Revolution. More soldiers
were left dead and wounded in the
SeVen Days retreat than fought In tn
combined armies of tho English ana
the Americans at Bunker Hill. More
soldiers fell at Antietam than there
were In the entire British army whic h
was surrendered by Burgoyne at Sara.
tosa. Twice as many soldiers were
missing after the battle OF Gettysburg
as the combined armies that lined VI
Under Washington and CORVALLIS when
the British surrendered at Yorktown
and the political integrity of a new ma.
ton was acknowledged by the civil.
lied world
The American Civil War in the
magnitude of It's combined nghtIng
forces has not been exc .eded by mod.
ern wars; from It's ranks could have
been murshaled nearly two armies OF
the total strength of Russia and Japan
combined in the Russo-Japancse War;
more than two armies OF tn, combined
strength Of France and Germany in the
Franco Prussian War; six armies of the
combined strength Of the British anu
the Beers In the Ang o. Boer War:
more than seven armies Of tn. combined
strength of the Russians and the Allies
in the Crimean War: and more than
twenty armies Of tho combined strength
of the troops actually engaged by
Spain and tn. United States In the
Spanish American War.
a MILAN Human Lives Were sncr.-
need.
On the battle grounds of the Amer
lean Civil War 1t Is estimated that
from 100000 to 100000 human lives
were sacriiced. either by death in bat.
u;. disease, or by being permanent!
disabled. The latter figure IL larger
than that OF the worlds wars, excep,
the Napoleonic campaigns, which. las [.
ing nineteen years or about five times
longer, were responsible for just about
I'VE times as many lives.
The American Civil War cogs at Its
lowest estimate twelve times more
than the war between Prussia. Austria
and Italy In 1866, which .ntiilcd
loss OF $4,000 men. In the Franco
Prusslan War of 1870 and 1871. one OF
the swiftest and seveTest conflicts OF
modern times, the aggregate losses Oi,
both sides amounted to $4,000 men, or
less than one-nalf that or Tn. Amer.
can Civil War. The Russo Turki> -.
War OF 1871 cost almost quarter OF
million lives. The Boer War be.
iwecn Great Britain and two South
African Republics from 1898 to 1901
cost in human life about onc-fifth that
Of the American Civil War.
Ia the Spanish-American War in
1898 the loss of lifa probably was not
more than six thousand man. The
Philippine aftermath, which cost the
lives Of from five to ten Thousand Unit
ed States soldiers-maay of them died
from the effects of the climat was
less than tina, OF many single battles in
the American Civil War. The highest
estimate OF the Losses in the great
war between the Russians and the
japanese is about half million, or n OF
as large as the lowest estimate of hu.
man life sacrificed through the Amer.
lean civil War.
Thirty billion Dollars in Money md
Property.
The direct financial cost of the oper-
alton of the American Civil War was
about $4,000. 100000 which weh de.
structioa OF property. arrangement OF
the power or labor pension systems
and other economic losses. is Iuci ca $ al
until the total reaches thirty billions
OF dollars.
The direct expenditure OF eight bill
lions alone Is five times that OF the
direct cost of ths Crimean War; near
Is thrice that of the Franco Prussian
War; seven times that of the Russo
Turkish War; six times tina, OF tho
the Russo-Japanesc War; ten times
that OF tho Spanish american Philip-
PINE War: thirteen times that of the
Chinese Japanese War: twenty four
times that OF the Prussinn- Austrian
War: seventeen times that of the two
wars combined between Great Britain
and th= United States; and, with its
pensions and interest on Its debt. about
equal to that of all the Napoleonie
campaigns for min e;een years
a sociologist has recently made
some remarkable deductions from the
american Civil War. He states that
the cost OF the war in direct expendi-