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.

lOTCeS' 20 per cent complete 10 udIe
was made public today by the wal
department, the totals for all divis-
ions exclusive of the two regiments
of marines in the second division
are:
Killed in action-27,762.
Died of wounds-ll, 1896.
Missing in action-l4,6 49.
Prisoners, 1856
Grand total of major casualties
56.592.
The figures for each OF the &c
combat divisions included show tho
following total of majority casual
ties:
First ReguIars). SPAS; second
CRegulars), 1855; third (regulars)
3,617; fourth (Regulars), 1855;
fifth (RegularsD, 1904: sixth
CReguIarsD, 1872: seventh (regu-
lars). 326; twenty-sixth New Eng
land National Guards, 1854 TWEEN
Guards. 2,194: twenty-eighth
pennsylvania National Guards, .
$50; twenty ninth New Jersey, Vir-
ginia, Maryland. Delaware and Dis
trict of Columbia National Guards
LILY: thirtieth Tennessee, North
Carolina and South Carolina Ma
tional Guards, 1,772; thirty-second
michigan and Wisconsin National
Guards, 3.2l3.
Thirty-third illinois national
guards, LII; Thirty-fifth mis-
souri, and Kansas national
guards, 1873: Thirty-sixth
(Texas and Oklahoma naticn-
al guards, S69; Thirty-seventh
bow. $3.50: Seventy-seventh New
York metropolitan national army
2,6O2: Seventy-e:ghth New York
and northern Pennsylvania nation
al army. l,025; Seventy-ninth
(southern Pennsylvania national
army. 2,3S9
Eightieth New Jersey, Virginia
Maryland, Delaware and District Ct
Columbia national army). 1856 {;
E:ghty-first Tennessee, North Car
DINA and South Carolina national
army. $40: Eighty-second tGeor-
gia, Alabama and Florida national
army). ]. 5af2; Eighty-eiGuEiss - sssisst-
nesota. Iowa, Nebraska. North Da-
kota and South Dakota national
army. Sc; Eighty-nfnth kansas,
Missouri and Colorado national
army. 1925: Ninetieth (Texas. Ar
iona, New Mexico and Oklahoma
national army. 1.5S5; N,nety-first
Washington, Oregon, California,
Nevada, Utah, Idaho. Montana and
Wyoming), 1,702; Ninety-second
Irrational army negroes), 2ll; Nine
ty-third Irrational army negroeS)
400.
In killed IN action the first reg
Mar division leads the list with
1903 Other divisions with more
than 1000 men killed in action,
stand in the following order:
Third. 1901; forty-second, l,702;
thfrty-second, 1.694; twenty-eighth,
I.544; fourth, 1900; twenty-sixth.
1855; second, 1888; twenty-sev-
enth. 1902; seventy-seventh. 1875;
thirtieth. 1854
The only division TO lose more
than 1000 men died of wounds was
the first. with $50. Only three di-
visions had more than 1000 miss
ing in action. the first with 1,7S9,
the twenty-eighth. with LII, and
the seventy-ninth with 1,I42.
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 regf-
ments place the four infantry reg
iments of the First DIVISION as
heaviest of the war. with from
1.I50 to 1854 major casualties
each. These regiments are the Six
teenth Eighteenth, Twenty-siXth
and Twenty-eighth regulars Fig
ures for the Fifth and Sixth ina
rines) regiments in this division
are not given.
Among the national guard diyis-
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 1.112. Next is the
One Hundred Second infantry Of
Twenty division. with a tota
of 99S. and the fourth IN the One
Hundred Sixty-fifth infantry OF the
Forty ecOnd. With $40.
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. ana the other
by the adjutant 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
decreased by
The Red Cross total is
D ,243, including 1857 military pris-
oncrs. The adjutant general re
ported 5,401 OF which ! $40 were
prisoners.