History of Kershaw's Brigade eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 884 pages of information about History of Kershaw's Brigade.

History of Kershaw's Brigade eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 884 pages of information about History of Kershaw's Brigade.
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

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