Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-01
u. S. LOSSES BY
EACH DIVISION
ARE GIVEN OUT
Official Tabulation of
Overseas Casualties
Is Made Public.

ions exclusive of the two regiments
of marines in the second division.
are:
Killed in action-27,762.
Died of wounds-ll 1886.
Missing in action-l4,649.
PrisOners-2,7S5.
Grand total of major casualties
56,592.
The figures for each of the 30
combat divisions included show the
following total of majority casual
ties:
First RegularsD 5.248; second,
(Regulars), 1855; third (regularsl i,
3,617; fourth (Regulars), 1855;
fifth tRegulars), 2,5O4; sixth,
/ (RegularsD, 1872; seventh (regu-
lars), 1926; twenty-sixth New Eng
land National Guards, 1854; TWEEN
ty-seventh (New York National
/ Guards. 2,I94; twenty-eighth
. Pennsylvania National Guards, .
$50; twenty ninth New Jersey. Vir-
/ ginia, Maryland. Delaware and Dis
/ trict of Columbia National Guards, f,
! LILY: thirtieth Tennessee. North
Carolina and South Carolina Ma
: tional Guards, 1.772; thirty-second
! michigan and Wisconsin National
/ Guards, 3,213.
/ Thirty-third GElinois national
guards, LII; Thirty-ffth mis-
souri, and Kansas national
guards), 1873: Thirty-sixth
/ CTexas and Oklahoma nation
al guards. S69; Thirty-seyenth
I bow. 1880: Seventy-seventh New
York metropolitan national army,
2,602: Seventy-e:ghth tNew York
and northern Pennsylvania nation
al army. 1925; Seventy-ninth
Z (southern Pennsylvania national
army, 2,3S9
/ Eightieth (Naw Jersey, Virginia.
Maryland, Delaware and District CT
Columbia national army). 1855,
E:ghty-first Tennessee. North Car
olina and South Carolina national
army. $40; Eighty-second tGeor-
gia. Alabama and Florida national
armyl. l.5g2; EightF-eiGnFsR t MR.
nesota, Iowa. Nebraska, North Da-
kota and South Dakota national
army. 66: Eighty ninth (Kansas,
! Missouri and Colorado national
army, 1925: Niuetieth CTexas. Ar
izona, New Mexico and Oklahoma
national army. 1855; N,nety-first
Washington, Oregon, California,
Nevada. Utah. Idaho, Montana and
.. Wyomingl. 1,7O2; Ninety-second
(national army negroesD, 21l; Nine
ty-third (national army negroeS),
400.
In killed IN action the first reg
ular division leads the list with
2,303. Other divisions with more
than 1000 men killed in action,
stand in the following order:
Third. 1901; forty-second, 1.7O2;
thirty-second. .694; twenty-eighth.
1,544: fourth. 1.500: twenty-siXth,
.1.3SS; second, 1888; twenty-sev-
enth. 1902; seventy-seventh. 1910;
thirtieth, 1,0S4.
The only division to lose more
than 600 men died of wounds was
the first. with 1,050. Only three di-
visions had more than 1000 miss
ing in action. the first with l,7S9,
the twenty-eighth. with LII, and
the seventy-ninth with LAP.
The heaviest hit in the loss in
prisoners was the twenty-eighth,
691 men taken by the enemy. The
twenty-sixth was second with @54
taken prisoners. and the seventy
seventh, third with 1886.
Tables showing losses by regi-
ments place the four infantry reg
iments of the First DIVISION as
heaviest of the war. with from
1850 to 1854 major casualties
each. These regiments are the Six
teenth Eighteenth. Twenty-siXtiI
and Twenty-eighth regulars. Fig
ures for the Fifth and Sixth ina
rines) regiments in this division
are not given.
AmCng the national guard diviS-
ions, the heavist regimental losses
recorded are for the One Hundred
Tenth infantry, Of the Twenty
eighth division. LAP men. while
the losses of the One Hundred
Ninth infantry Of the sane division
stand second at 1.ll3. Next is the
One Hundred Second infantry OF
Twenty-sixth division. with a tota
of 99S. and the fourth III the One
Hundred SiXty-fifth infantry of the
Forty-second. with S79.
In the national army division,
the regimental losses OF the Three
Hundred Sixteenth infantry, Sew
enty-ninth division, were the heav-
lest. totaling 500.
Two tables of prisoners taken by
the enemy. one prepared by the
American Red Cross, and the other
by the adiutant generals office,
were given out Both show much
larger totals than the announced
list of known military prisoners,
but the latter will be increased and
the number of missing in action
cores pOndingly decreased by
checking. The Red Cross total is
5,243, including 1857 military pris-
oncrs. The adjutant general re
ported 5,40l OF which 9l6 were
military prisoners.