| Show HOW THEY WASTE AWAY the operations of the civil war ra r movis sow deras tating and desolating the american states have hare been and are far more destructive of 01 ilfe lire than generally supposed posed the ile number of the killed kiah d and wounded in battle althou although h far fo grea gre greaber leh lek than has been announced ti ta the world is acano acknowledged pledged to be but small in coin com balison aikson to the number of those who have led died of disease an from other cause causel i which have hava lava lave existed and to which the soldier soldiers s have been subject producing death consear constar constantly aly and steadily but at a rapid rate the following taken from th the new kew york erwig post Is 9 a fair fait bampie of the leess that have bee been f r ju eustaine dby aby 5 maj majority orl ay iy of the regiments which have been in the field for any considerable lengh jenab of time when the chemaine Maine eleventh passed through broadway last november ti e hallelujah chorus chanted by eight hundred and fifty sturdy fellows few persons who ho saw taw them j cou d have ant tha that those tall lumber mn u would ouid within a twelvemonth be almost decimated arriving in washington they built bulit those famous barracks barrac kd which were vis by so many strangers but in spite of the fine shelter the typhoid was wag soon bu y in their ranks and when they went down dovin with casays division the were only seven beven hini hundred tired fired and fifty strong one eighth had died of disease dibease ahil on the peninsula thi th thy lived on bard bank biscuit and water for i five ive lve weeks week owing to the inefficiency or rascality lily of some tome doneso that when they took up the deuble double qu ck for the men inen fell on the road and died from sheer cheer exhaustion at the battle hattle of fair oaks they numbered fit for duty only one hundred and ei fily lily men one half of this thia number were in action and were nearly all killed and wounded |
