Show casualties OF WAR of liff lives lot lost la to tvr corn com pared 4 with civil wr war washington may 2 A memorandum has been prepared at the war department part ment comparing the losee losses in the spanish war with the first fear year in the civil war the aggregate strength of troops employed during the war with spain we was approximately covering the ille period from may 1898 until april 1809 inclusive during thi this time the deaths from all causes were or 24 per cent the mean stra strength nath th of the first year of war was with an aggregate af reate losa loss by deaths of boing being a percentage of CS 08 |