The courier-index., 1919-10-17

ponenCS worthy Of our steel, and showed the fighting qualities of the American soldier regardless of sec tion. No other soldiers but Amer jeans could have faced such car mage. It was a struggle in which American manhood, courage, endur- ance and skill were pitted against American manhood, courage, en- durance and skill, and fraught with the greatest results to man. kind.
 Representative Warnock of Ohio. in speech in Congress about Is years ago, in order to demonstrate the splendor of American military manhood, made some comparisons, and gave facts and figures to prove hls assertions. First he spoke of the charge of the British Light Brigade at Balaklava, made famous in im- mortal verse by the poet Tennyson, so much that the world has been disposed to regard it as one of the most gallant and heroic exhibitions of human effort in all history. Now. for the figures and facts as to the fatalities occurring in that charge. Obedient to an i'll advised order 673 men rode to storm battery. Of the 673 men who made that charge 113 were killed, 134 wounded, making a total loss of FAY, or per cent of 36.7. But in comparison Mir. Warnock stated an examination of the records of the War Department at Washington disclosed the fact that we had 15O regiments in the war between the states, 75 on the Union and 75 on the Confederate side, that had a greater loss than that. He stated that in single engagement each of these regiments lost over 40 per cent of their numbers. Detailed tables in the department of the losses sustained by the various reg lments make remarkable show ing. On the Confederate side, the First Texas lost at the battle of Sharpsburg, Md, 82.5 per cent of It's number; the 21st Georgia in the second battle of Manassas lost 76 per cent. The 26th North Carolina at Gettysburg lost Fl per cent of It's numbers; the Sixth Mississippi lost at Shiloh 70.5 per cent of the number carried into action. On the Federal side the same frightful per cent of loss prevailed in various battles. The First Minnesota at Gettysburg lost S2 per cent of those engaged; the Hist Pennsyl- vanla- lost 75.7 per cent of the number carried into action in the same battle. The 101st New York lost 73.8 per cent at the second battle of Manassas and the 18th Massachusetts, at Cold Harbor lost
 H0 per cent of the rank and file en- gagged There were 20 Northern regiments which lost each in a single engagement 60 per cent and over and 39 that lost so per cent and over of the number engaged. Does It not demonstrate the fierce nature of the fighting between the sections and the magniicence of the courage, zeal and valor of the American soldier. Oh, for Tenny- son to have immortalized in verse the heroism of those gallant dead. both North and South.
 Today we are Amercans, and the old boys in gray have transferred their loyalty from the Stars and Bars, their first love which has been consigned to the tomb, to the Stars and Stripes, the flag of our com
 mon country which kisses with equal fervor the genial breezes of our sunny South as it does the more rigid winds of the North.
 The loyalty of the South has been fully proven both in the Spanish and the recent war. The sons of Confederate sons marched shoulder to shoulder with the sons of the Federal soldier, up the heights of i El Caney, Cuba, under the leader ship of Gen. Joe Wheeler, erstwhile gallant Confederate soldier. Quot ing one of your own eloquent cit izens, Mir. Clark Howell, at a Chi cago banquet years ago on this subject: "The South, drawing in spiration from the flag of our coun- try, has shared not only the dan gers, but the glofies of war. In the