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PROPORTION "1 WOUNDED TO KILLED

PROPORTION OF WOUNDED TO KILLED.

Battles. Killed.

Shiloh. 1,754

Mill Springs . 30

Fort Donelson . 500

Pea Ridge . 203

New Berne 90

Kernsto wn 118

Williamsburg... 45(5

Fair Oaks 790

Seven Days. 1,734

Cedar Mountain . 314

Manassas - 1,747

South Mountain . 325

Grampton's Gap . 113

Antietam. 2,108

Iuka . 141

Corinth . 355

Chaplin Hills . 845

Chickasaw Bluffs . 208

Arkansas Post. 134

Gettysburg . 3,063

Vicksburg Campaign. 1,514

Port Hudson ... 707 Rappahannock Station .

Fort Wagner (July IS) . 240

Mine Run . 173

Missionary Ridge 752

Wilderness . 2,246

Spotsyl vania. 2,725

North Anna and )

.,, f 591

Totopotonioy

Cold Harbor and ) ^. Bethesda Church I

Petersburg, June 15-18. 1,688

Deep Bottom 327

Atlanta Campaign . 4,423

Opequon 697

Cedar Creek . 644

21 Minor Engagements. 835

Total. 34,532

Wounded, including mortally.

8,408

207 2,108

980

380

450 1,410 3,594 8,062 1,445 8,452 1,403

418 9,549

613 1,841 2,851 1,005

898

14,492

7,395

3,336

328

880

1,099

4,713

12,037

13,416

2,734

9,077

8,513 1,851

22,822 3,983 3,430 4,597

168,777

Captured and Mining.

2,885

224

201

1

22

373

647

6,053

622

4,263

85

2

753

36

324

515

563

29

5,435

453

819

6

389

381

349

3,383

2,258

661

1,816

1,185

721 4,442

338 1,591

461

41,786

Ratio of Wounded /<• Killed.

4.7 5.3 4.2

4.8 4.2 3.H 3.0 4.5 4.6 4.5 4.s 4.3 3.6 4.5 4.3 5.1 8.3 4.8 6.7 4.7 4.s

4.7 3.9 3.5 6.3 6.2 5.3 4.9

4.6

4.9

5.0 5.6 5.1 5.7 5.3 5.5

4.8

Included in the "Captured and Missing" are many wounded men, also a large numtor of killed. Their relative proportion cannot 1x3 ascertained, but it probably would not differ enough from the usual ratio to change the average to any extent. In the preceding table the losses at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Cliickamauga, and Drewry's Bluff are omitted.

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