Arizona republican., 1918-12-15

i6'3-N ellowStone expedition, Dakota l4-1S75-Campaign against kiowa,
 Cheyenne and Comanche Indians
 in Indian Territory.
 l67f-Sioux expedition, Wyoming and
 Nebraska. lS74-Black Hills expedition, the Da-
 kotas.
 1Si5-EXpedition against Nevada In
 dians.
 1S16-SiouX Indian war
 l876-Powder River, Wyo., expedition. lSl6-lSl1-Big Horn and Yellowstone
 expeditions.
 S76-1&7-Nez Perces campaign. 1S7S-Ute expedition.
 1S79-Snake Indian trouble. Idaho. 1S90-1S91-SiouX Indian war.
 Sl-1893-MeXican border or I'm
 Horn war.
 1S95-Bannocl Indian disturbances. 9S-1S99-Spanish- American war. 1S9S-Chippewa Indian disturbances. 1899 99-1902-Philippin instruction 190O-l9O1-Boxer insurrection, China. 1912 l2-1913-Nicaragua expedition. 1915 1914-Haitian and Santo Domin-
 gan expeditions.
 1914-Nera Cruz expedition
 l916-Punitive expedition into Mexico. 17-191S-European war
 One important thing that George Washington forgot to attend to when he was directing the fight for Ameri- can independence was the organization of a statistical force to keep a record l of the casualties sustained by the units under his command. The only official record thatSwas kept was the number of men who at different times fought in the Revolutionary army, and even this is considered incorrect. The statistics which are available show 356,0O0 men in the Revolutionary army, of whom 231,771 were listed in the Continental forces and 900 re- 1 corded as state or militia troops. ! The total here given says the l Historical Register of the Army, Ifs l excessive as to the number that served | In the army, for many served two, 1 three and even more terms There are no records of any kind to | indicate the number of casualties. The first war in which there is a record of casualties-and it is believed 1 to be only approximate-is the war l with the northwest Indians, which started in September 1790, and ended , in August, 1795. Between 5000 and ! 1000 troops engaged in this war on the American side. the recorded casualties being 61 officers and S35 men killed or died of wounds and 5 officers and 1 401 men wounded.
 No records exist as to the casualties suffered in the nine little wars that intervened between the northwest h. dian struggle and the war of 1872 with 1 Great Britain.
 In the war of 1912 the regular army totaled in strength about 60,000 off cers and men, while the volunteer army numbered 471,000 men, of whom S1,210 were officers. The regular army casualties were 65 officers and 123; men killed, while 577 officers and en- listed men were killed in the volunteer army. In the regular army 29S5 mer were wounded and in the vounteel force 1915. There are no records o1 the casualties due to disease, although they are known to have greatly eX ceeded those due to battle.
 In the Seminole Indian war of 1877. 1918 the United States forces mum bered S100, of whom about 1000 wer, regulars. The casualties were 46 killed and 36 wounded.
 The Black Hawk and the Sac aut Fox wars of 1881 and 1892 called int, service about 6700 men, of whom 3, were killed and 39 wounded This lit . tie war was followed by the Seminol. wars of 1855 to 1S42, in which the cas ualties totaled nearly 1000 in killed and wounded. In the Seminoe fight. the regulars lost IS officers and 31l men killed, and 20 officers and 27' wounded. The volunteer force in tn, same wars lost five officers and 5 ] Ii O. la wounded, the total casualties being 3S killed and 595 wounded. The record upto this time are still missing so ia as deaths from disease and othe causes are concerned.
 When congress declared war O. Mexico, in May, 1S46, the strength o l the regular army was 637 officers an 1925 enlisted men, and to this fore were added during the war 1916 off cers and S5,000 men. making a total 0 ' 1853 officers and 40,934 enlisted mer while the volunteer army that wa called to the colors numbered 3131 off cers and 70,129 enlisted men, the tota strength of the two forces being 115, 5 S47 men.
 The records show @ casualty list C 43,299 men. Of this number TIT wer killed in battle, 945 died of wounds re ceived in action, 16.054 died of dis - ease, 12,36S were discharged for dis ability incident 10 the service, 530 los their lives in accidents in camp C near the battlefronts. and 34 were ex ecuted under sentence of court mar tial. The remainder were lost to tn l. service through assertion, rejection and for various other causes.
 The next great war was the Civ , war between the North and South. I'll Q number of troops that fought in ths struggle was approximately 3,O00,0( men, of whom 2,924,51 were on tI n Union side and the rest in the Cor federate army. There are no complet T official data from which to compile a accurate estimate of the Confederat , losses; the best available records ind Q cate that the South lost about @ .0( - men in killed or dead from wound
 and about 5000 who died of diseas , while the number of wounded missin
 or taken prisoners has been various
 estimated at anywhere from 10000 q 200, 900.
 The following table shows the deatl !. from all causes in the Union armies:
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