First Manassas ...... 387 Gettysburg ............ 3,530 Wilson’s Creek ...... 279 Chickamauga ........... 2,380 Fort Donelson ....... 466 Missionary Ridge ...... 381 Pea Ridge ........... 360 Sabine Cross Roads .... 350 Shiloh .............. 1,723 Wilderness ............ 1,630 Seven Pines ......... 980 Atlanta Campaign ...... 3,147 Seven Days Battles .. 3,286 Spottsylvania ......... 1,310 Second Manassas ..... 1,553 Drury’s Bluff ......... 355 Sharpsburg .......... 1,512 Cold Harbor ........... 960 Corinth ............. 1,200 Atlanta, July 22, 1864. 1,500 Perryville .......... 510 Winchester ............ 286 Fredericksburg ...... 596 Cedar Creek ........... 339 Murfreesboro ........ 1,794 Franklin .............. 1,750 Chancellorsville .... 1,665 Nashville ............. 360 Champion Hill ....... 380 Bentonville ........... 289 Vicksburg Siege ..... 875 Five Forks ............ 350
There were many other battles, some of greater magnitude than the above, which are not here given. There are generally five wounded to one killed, and nearly one-third of the wounded die of their wounds, thus a pretty fair estimate of the various battles can be had. There were more men killed and wounded at Gettysburg than on any field of battle during the war, but it must be born in mind that its duration was three days. General Longstreet, who should be considered a judge, says that there were more men killed and wounded on the battlefield at Sharpsburg (or Antietam), for the length of the engagement and men engaged, than any during this century.
The Union losses on the fields mentioned above exceeded those of the Confederates by thirteen thousand five hundred in killed and died of wounds.
There were twenty-five regular prison pens at the North, at which twenty-six thousand seven hundred and seventy-six Confederate prisoners died, tabulated as follows:
Prisons. No. Deaths.
Alton, Ill 1,613
Camp Butler, Ill 816
Camp Chase, Ohio 2,108
Camp Douglass, Ill 3,750
Camp Horton, Ind 1,765
Camp Randall, Wis 137
Chester, Penn 213
David’s Is., N.Y. Harbor 178
Elmira, N.Y. 2,960
Fort Delaware, Del 2,502
Fort Warren, Bos’n H’b’r
13
Frederick, Md 226
Gettysburg, Penn 210
Hart’s Is., N.Y. Harbor 230
Johnson’s Island, Ohio 270
Knoxville, Tenn 138
Little Rock, Ark 220
Nashville, Tenn 561
New Orleans, La 329
Point Lookout, Md 3,446
Richmond, Va 175
Rock Island, Ill 1,922
St. Louis, Mo 589
Ship Island, Miss 162
Washington, DC 457