Show OF the cost lii life of hie t the results obtained by mr kirkley a statistician of tha adjutant generals office remark the yew york mail and express in compiling from all attainable sources a list of the deaths on the union side during the war possess a melancholy but veryel rong enters inters est ati this time it has been a very difficult task ito gather names for this roll so many perished unsen and lin known so many rotted away iu southern prisons of whom every trace is lost that the compiler might well ing his task with anything like an approach to accuracy patience and perseverance have at last accomplished the difficult task however andee havern mr Kir kleya tables what is at least the most accurate and complete death roll yet published if not one absolutely without error the registers of a dozen southern prisons have not been secured those at americus atlanta augusta macon charleston lynchburg marietta mobile montgomery savana nah shreveport and tyler and only partial records were obtained from catawba Cah awba columbia milieu florence and salisbury but with these exceptions the roll is substantially complete one of the results arrived at at least to the reader who knows nothing practically of war is that more than twice as many men died from disease in tha army as from the shot shell bayo net and sword of the enemy one hundred and ten thousand and thirty eight officers and men were killed outright ordred of wounds but died of disease the number of those who are known to have died in captivity reaches the appalling total of another remarkable fact is that over 50 per cent more were killed in action than died of wounds the respective numbers being and at least three fourths of the wounded must have ered partially at least so that they did not die during the period covered by the inquiry which ceases with the mustering out at the end of the war how many veterans there anro still among us who carry about their bodies the marks of vio lence suffered during iad war let the long pension rolls testify mr Kirk leye tables are arranged by states so that wo can tell just how many lives each one contributed to the cause new york course heads the list with a total of ohio comes then illinois with then pennsylvania with and indiana with michigan missouri massachusetts wisconsin iowa and kentucky contributed tri buted between and 15 each all the rest acsa than cadi it is wortlie of remark that every state now in the union except south corolina is represented on thelian the liaf and every territory except utah there are only 15 from georgia 42 from virginia 78 from mississippi from texas from florida from alabama from north carolina arkansas contributed 1713 and ten this is exclusive of colored troops of whom died and doca not take in non of the erand total of known deaths in the union army was nearly ago adding as many more ajr the rebel losses ably not an overestimate and taking into account the natives on both silas and the uncounted we reach a total effat least men as the cost of alie war to this country nearly boci eighth of its entire voting population |