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


governments coftors.
Loyalty of the south to IDS Cnusc.
President Daviss call for troops came
two days after Lincoin's. and 1t founu
the whole South standing by its guns
ready to march to the front In almost
solid body to defend the principles
in which IT believed. The most reliable
records show that 1859 regiments of all
arms of the service were contributed
by the Confederacy to tho Moloch OF
war.
The resimental reunions that are
now being held throughout the states
are bringing back but remnant of
these hghting troops to their old bat
tie grounds to place laurels on the
graves OF their faithful dead Many
are the "reminiscences that are bein:,
| related on these anniversaries.
The veterans of these huge vcIun-
teer armies can recall the Kaleidoscope
pageant that drilled III the suburbs NJ
Washington and the hills OF Virginia.
t'alstaf's army could not surpass the
regiments in variety of color schemes.
Thsre was an interminglinE of the
Ted-trousered and velvet jacketed zou-
ayes: the brilliant paids of the High
ianders, the blue Jackets. gone plain
and Rhode Islands pleated; the p-,y
Jackets and gray troussrs of the W,s-
head to foot in gray; the cavalry In
gaudy yellow braid and brass epau.
let's: and the regulars in sombrc blue.
but with bright shining insignia on
their pasteboard-top caps. On all 81 les
were the caps OF nations. TIL src were.
the Sixth Massachusetts shakos tho
busbies OF the British; the fcz of the
trouave; he tassled caps OF the Mich
iSan woodsmen;. the high crowned.
black beaver of the Mexican War: In,
lowering bearskin hats of DRUM majors
and the ugly, but serviceable regula-
tiou paper top vizor.
states ContcstinE for IIonors on This
Scmi-Ccntcnnini.
The fifticth anniversary reunions Of
these lighting regiments arc develop
ing many friendly contests In valor
IN various parts of the country. Vir-
Einla justly claims TO be the shrine of
more fighting men than any other
state to-day. 1t has more historic
landmarks than any other place on the
Western continent. Nearly every foot
of tho old Commonwealth, which is the
Mother of Presidents. has been drench-
I'd In the blood of warriors Rich
mond undoubtedly Is the most historic
city in Amcrica-and in years TO come
: the generations will visit the magnih-
cent old Southern capital to look upon
,
was forged
Michgan's Fourth Regiment s,rved
in every battle OF the Army of the
Potomac from June, 1861. to the end of
the war. Its loss was heavy-lS9 men
we're killed, or MORALLY wounded, and
los were lost by dis ease.
New forks Forty fourth Regimen
was known as n 'fghting regiment
Its loss was ls2 mon killed and mortal
a wounded iNr, n
Pennsylvania claims the greatest re-
/ cord In artillery losses. 1t was sui
fcred by Coopers battery Of the First
Pennsylvania Light Artillery-its re-
cord of casualties in killed and wound
ed Is 70 per cent.
record for losses in battle belongs
TO the Twcnty-siXth New York. when
loss threc-tifths OF its number in a
single combat 1t was at the battle OF
! fredericksburg, where 1T went to tho
/ iirinG-line 500 strong, and came out
with but 1870. having lost 10 men
In the two days lighting on the
banks OF the Tennessee al Shioh tie
Fighting Fifty-fourth" Indiana Regi-
ment lost l9S men OF its as with which
. 1t had gone into battle.
some stnrtiinE Figures TO Remember.
Southern investigator finds that
over fifty Confederate regiments lost
over nifty to the hundred ia different bat
ties. The First Texas. at Antietam,
SIS per cent; the Twenty-tirst Georgia.
AT Manassas, 76; the Twcn ty- sixth North
/ Carolina, at Gettysburg, II; the Sixth
massachusetts,, at Shiloh 70 the Eighth
Tennessee, at Stone River. is: the Sew
enteenth South Carolina, at Manassas.
CO. the First Alabama Battalion, at
Chickamauga, 81: the Fifteenth Vir-
Sinia, at Antietam, 5S; the sixth Ala
bama. At Seven Pines, led by that gal
liant commanders n-chief General Cor
don. lost two-thirds OF its men in tina
action.
The total loss in killed or died OF