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--

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.