Show the glory of W nn rg not tor the cries of hurrah from the lough spoken crowd tl at chee ed tor last night and morrow w 11 with cheers tor some r ew 1 tearless and ting and pro d si ch glory I 1 eburn not or tl e praise of the bearded bages who p ate of 1 besterda est erda s do tr ne as foolish or vile or worn out wt o to morrow will grimly declare to day s creed out 0 date their plaud ts I 1 flout cut for their sweet approval who love ly and gentle and may some day bins u the r sons or my glory f how long 0 ye t e u they ceased to p aibe would ye dare whose hopes would s S E kiser in chicago record herald thirteen year old sold er I 1 into the service at camp chase coaell on sept 3 1861 says storekeeper stoie keeper jadwin dishing ai the navy yard d resident of valle and I 1 ft as lorn at dover N H on may 29 1848 age at the time of muster was 13 years 3 montas and 5 das my final discharge was given me at gallops island in boston 1 arbor on august 26 1865 thua a ing the official duration of my connect tion with the regiment just one week less than tour years of course says mr gushing there were a great many more boys in the arm but the larger part 0 these underage youngsters in dur ng the last two years of the war and as I 1 began with carrying a musket ind kept right on in that sort bt duty during the major part of the time I 1 as in the army the claim has been made in my behalf that I 1 am the youngest loun gest soldier with four years pf active ce to my credit who en listed from massachusetts whether or not that is so and the record may oe duplicated several times in this as in other states I 1 am satisfied eald mr gushing anat I 1 became a full early enough ind but for some hardening I 1 had just received on a new hampshire farm my experience in performing ler forming the duties a full fledged enlis ed man might have been much more dim cult than it proved to be then again my regiment the twenty sixth massa did not much real work in the field tor nearly two years and the life in garrisoning torts and in lo 10 icing new orleans gave me a chance to grow to the full measure of a soldier s duty so that when we reacted sheridan in the shenandoah valley we were all a toughened lot ol 01 union defenders the Twenty sixth said mr cush ing was one of the butler reg ments that went to ship island with gen burlei in november 1861 our corn zander being lol E F jones who led the old sixth through baltimore and col jones is now one of the youngest men in the regimental asso t atlon of which body I 1 am the secre ary the regiment was encamped at tip island until april 1862 our bri ade commander beng gen J W of vermont who was recalled by I 1 resident lincoln tor issuing those lamous emancipation proclamations gen phelps being the first of the i nion commanders to attempt the free dom of the slave in general orders chiv I 1 war losses 0 W norton in a letter to the chicago post says many ot your readers are interested in the war be russia and japan and follow ing the accounts of the battles are ap ailed by the great losses reported in each of the arm es these losses beem enormous and the impression is general th althe world has not seen before such desperate fighting corn few of bour readers are old enough to remember the fighting in our own civil war and fewer still I 1 ave made any study of the statistics of our own losses in battle modern weapons especially the small arms with their small bullets are much more merciful than those used n our great war when the bullets were one inch long and three inches in diameter causing fearful wounds the papers report that a very large proportion of the men wounded en both sides in the present war have already recovered and returned to the ranks the news paper accounts of the great slaughter in these battles are usually abed and the figures greatly reduced by the official reports perhaps lour readers would be in terestea te rested in some statistics of the civil war comparing them with reports of battles in the east the following fig ures are tal en from a book compiled by william F fox entitled regimen tal losses in the civil war this 1 ook Is accepted as authoritative and by tar the most reliable icat on in the statistics presented the figures are not estimated losses nor laken from the accounts of special corre spon dents in the field they are corn piled from the muster rolls and official reports on file in the war depart meat the following table gives th per of loss in several regiments in one battle to the number of men engaged in that battle ranging from 60 per cent to 82 per cent of the men who entered any one battle in the table from which I 1 copy these figures therb are a large number of other regiments in which the losses exceed ed ha t the number engaged but this list is long enough to show what stun ou american soldiers were made of the list includes killed wounded and missing A small portion of those reported missing were taken prisoners but the greater part were reported missing in battles where no prisoners taken and were reported be caus at the time the report was male it was not known absolutely whether they were dead or severely wounded nd left on the kleiff pet and battle loss one hundred and airty fart perm sylvania syl vanla gett asburg as 7 one hundred ind new lork Minas aai 3 8 folh if u f cold aur 70 sixth sin bethesda church 69 8 TV massachusetts fredericks burg 68 4 lighth vermont cedar creek 67 9 ty first pennsyl ania freder 67 4 twelfth massachusetts 67 0 first maine A petersburg 66 5 anth louis colored mil kens bend 64 0 one hundred and eleventh new york 63 8 twenty fourth M calgan gettysburg 60 1 fifth new hd ashi e bu s 6 9 N nth II 11 binok shiloh 63 3 ninth bew lork ant atam etam afe elath new je sey Spott sylvania ba S lihty second new york ge ba S fifteenth mas achu gettysburg 61 sixty binti ew york 61 S ritty fl st illinois cl nineteenth indiana manassas one hundred a d iw nty first new York Salem cl burcl 60 i filth new york manassas Minas sas 60 6 na ety third new lork wilderness 60 0 back at chattanooga I 1 was in chattanooga last week sid abe captain and vent over the chickamauga battlefield to locate the camp of the first illinois in 1898 I 1 coulden couldn t find it or at least I 1 could not locate it by any vt the old land marks all traces of the old camp bae been obi aerated and new camps of a more permanent character have taken the place of abe old ones in a few months other changes will have taken alace goring to the regular cavalry stationed la the park the model bar racks and camp of the country the seventh cavalry Is there now the troopers riding along the roads tha were the scenes of many dashing soldier adventures in september 1863 an old surgeon riding with we over the field pointed out where a full regi mei t of rebel cavalry crossed ane river in the rear of his brigade and galloped by a log shanty beh nd which he had just established his field hospital the men in gray seemed oblivious of the men in blue firing in front and the nen n en in blue were as oblivious of the pe sence of the enemy s cavalry in their rear that illustrated the doctor said w hat a mix up there w as at chick A little later our driver pointing to a large manufactory near the base of lookout mountain said in spite of the mix up some of the boys lucky in the outcome there Is a tel low named patten an illinois man by the way who is worth 2 because of a leg shattered by a can non ball over in the park before it was a park he was so severely wounded that he could not be sent north with the other wounded of the battles hereabout and was still in hospital when the war closed the result was he remained here went ato business and is now worth 2 it his leg had not been clashed by a cannon ball or it he had gone home lame he aright have lost his chances to become a millionaire chicago inter ocean has rare war relics V grant post no G A R of brool ln has a veritable museum of rel cs in its headquarters most of the relics are presents from those who took part in the war of the rebellion or the friends among the rel cs of great interest in the post rooms is a collection presented by mrs widow of rear admiral these are relics of the rebellion and the united states fleet on the mississippi river and comprise shot shell and fragments from on board the gunboats laylor carondo let and lafayette commanded by commander henry other in te resting articles are a large pastel portrait of general grant painted by H W berthrong Bez throng loaned by mrs U S grant large pastel painting of the equestrian statue of general grant presented by the union league club a picture of prison and many other things of interest include ing a stump from the battlefield of chattanooga in which is imbedded an ur exploded shell A case which oc abe center of the room con bains valuable and rare war relics which cannot be duplicated elsewhere deaths of confederate officers Off cers much been said in the euro press of the death of gen count keller of the russian army who was killed in a recent battle with the japanese in manchuria gen kel ler was the first officer of high rank killed on e ther side with the excel alon of the russian admiral off who was blown up in a warship at port arthur it may be out of place to mention that in the civil war in country the confederates had killed in battle no less than fifty two general officers of whom one was a general of the highest rank and corn mander in chief albert sydney john ston who tell at shiloh and three lieutenant generals leonadas polk stonewall jackson and A P hill there were eight major generals and forty brigadier generals the aerates fought great odds and it was necessary for officers of the highest rank to expose themselves they went with their men into every dan ger and this was the reason why so many were killed in battle while few escaped being wounded new or leans picayune veterans passing away soldiers of the disappearing army as the veterans of the civil war have been termed are dying at abe rate of every day from sun rise to sunrise this pathetic show ing is made by the quarterly state men of the pension bureau given out by commissioner ware the mortal it among soldier pensioners of all wars and classes last year was 31 deaths of which 30 were volun teer ol diers in the civil war corn missioner ware estimates that there are from to soldiers of the civil war who are not sion rolls these he has designated as the unknown army it is said fully civil war veterans pen and pensioners non died last year ahti arton star |