Show THE HORRORS OF WAR Death Losses of Civil War Compared with Thou of Other War I The titanic nature of tho struggle between the states from 1861 to 1805 IH slow dawning Upon tho world In the annalH of warfare It was tho most deadly conflict ever known preservation tho first law of nn tine compelled the north to put forth Its length to tho limit of posaltilll HUH while the south once committed to the dioiiui of successful rebellion fought with the mad coinage of desperate des-perate resolve For four yenis tho warfaio was un censing the northern soldiers auf fared severely fioin the southern cll luatu and tho diseases engendered in ni unaccustomed way of life aa well while tho killed and wounded numbered num-bered in the union auny alono 385 215 Of these 109893 wcro killed outright out-right in lie field of battle 199720 died from diseases while tho war was p goltiR on A death roll of 319013 P Computing tlu two great battles r Waterloo and Gettysburg a military l writer draws attention to tho fact that while tho I same number of men were on tbo Held in these battles 152 000 all told the losses at Gettysburg exceeded the losses at Waterloo considering con-sidering tho casualties to tho troops actually engaged At Waterloo the losses were 49185 and at Gettysburg I 50628 It is remembered that 11000 men tide Sixth corps were not engaged en-gaged at Gettysburg except for a short tlnle early on the morning of July 2 This runs up tho percentage of losses in tho American battle considering tho number of men engaged 1 Throughout tho civil war tho loss of Ufo on both aides was frightful writes Ada C Sweet In Chicago Journal Jour-nal Looked at even now after the 9 f lapse of years the record Is dreadful kl tp contemplate In tho union army tljoro were 75 regiments whose losses Iran I-ran from 60 to 86 per cent Tho First Minnesota went into action ac-tion at Gettysburg with 202 officers and men It lost 224 killed unit y wounded the Twentieth Massachusetts 9 Massachu-setts at Fredericksburg lost over 08 per cent of Its membership and camo out of the fight commanded by u captain i cap-tain who was In years u more boy rickott tho confederate general led 5000 brave men In his great charge at i Gettysburg and in 30 minutes lost in killed wounded and prisoners 3000 The bloodiest battle of tho civil war was Antlotam and the losses were tho most appalling In a short space of time unless we except Cold Harbor 4 r whore tho union forces lost 4000 men In eight minutes When wo nee tho veterans In their parades or engaged in their work along the ordinary days of life distinguished dis-tinguished only by tho bronze buttons that some of them wear wo do not realize what these men have gone through We have all been taught to respect and honor them but it is only when we look at tho records of death and devotion which arc wrlttcp in tho books of tho nation but left for the most part unread that we realize what It meant to be one of Unclo Sams soldiers In the years from 1801 to 1805 It Is well to take thought occasionally occasion-ally of all the sacrifices that were f made that tho country might live and that wo might exist in peace and prosperity a freo people upon the face of tho earth |