The Federal authorities commenced immediately after the war to collect their dead in suitable cemeteries, and the work of permanently marking their graves continued systematically until the Federal loss in the war can be very accurately estimated.  There are seventy-five public cemeteries for the burial of the Federal soldiers, in which are buried three hundred and sixty thousand two hundred and seven; of these, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand four hundred and ninety-six are marked unknown.  There were thirty-three thousand five hundred and twenty negro soldiers buried in the cemeteries, and more than fifty thousand Union dead never accounted for a great number of these fell by the wayside during “Sherman’s march to the sea;” lost by “Sherman’s rear guard,” called by the Federal soldiers “Confederate bushwhackers”

The rolls of the Confederate dead in the archives at Washington, given by States, are very unsatisfactory and necessarily incomplete Only two States can even approximate their loss.  But as this is the record in Washington, I give it.

Killed.     Died of Wounds.     Died of Disease. 
Virginia            5,328         2,519               6,947
North Carolina     14,522         5,151              20,602
South Carolina      9,187         3,725               4,700
Georgia             5,553         1,716               3,702
Florida               793           506               1,047
Alabama               552           190                 724
Mississippi         5,807         2,651               6,807
Louisiana           2,612           858               3,059
Texas               1,348         1,241               1,260
Arkansas            2,165           915               3,872
Tennessee           2,115           874               3,425
Regulars            1,007           468               1,040
Border States       1,959           672               1,142
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Totals             52,954        21,570              59,297

In the above it will be seen that North Carolina, which may be considered approximately correct, lost more than any other State.  Virginia furnished as many, if not more, troops than North Carolina, still her losses are one-third less, according to the statistics in Washington.  This is far from being correct.  Alabama’s dead are almost eliminated from the rolls, while it is reasonable to suppose that she lost as many as South Carolina, Mississippi, or Georgia.  South Carolina furnished more troops in proportion to her male white population than any State in the South, being forty-five thousand to August, 1862, and eight thousand reserves.  It is supposed by competent statisticians that the South lost in killed and died of wounds, ninety-four thousand; and lost by disease, one hundred and twenty-five thousand.

In some of the principal battles throughout the war, there were killed out right, not including those died of wounds—­