Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses soldier's life ; and that the remainder would have occurred, just the same, if the men had remained at home. Of those who died from disease, one-fourth died of fever, principally typhoid ; one-fourth died of diarrhea, or other forms of bowel complaint ; nearly one-fourth died from inflamma tion of the lungs, or consumption, principally the former ; the remaining fourth died of small-pox, measles, brain disease, erysipelas, and the various forms of disease common to the masses. The deaths in the Union Army, from all causes, as officially classified were as follows : DEATHS FEOM ALL CAUSES. Cause. Officers. Enlisted Men. Aggregate. Killed, or died of wounds 6,365 103,705 110,070 Died of disease.. 2,712 197,008 199,720 In Confederate prisons- 83 24,783 24,866 Accidents 142 3,972 4,114 Drowning 106 4,838 4,944 Sunstrokes 5 308 313 Murdered 37 483 520 Killed after capture 14 90 104 Suicide! 26 365 391 Military executions 267 267 Executed by the enemy __ 4 60 64 Causes known, but unclassified 62 1,972 2,034 Cause not stated. 28 12,093 12,121 Aggregate 9,584 349,944 359,528 The deaths from accidents were caused, principally, by the careless use of fire-arms, explosions of ammunition, and railway accidents ; in. the cavalry service, a large number of accidental deaths resulted from poor horsemanship. The number of the drowned may seem large, but the average is less than three men to a regiment. This loss was occasioned largely by bathing and boating. At times, some regi ment would sustain a larger loss while fording livers, or landing from small boats in the surf. The Seventy-fifth Pennsylvania, while crossing the Shenandoah, in April, 1862, lost 2 officers and 51 men, drowned by the swamping of a scow. Of the Union soldiers confined in Confederate prisons, 24,866 died of disease, exclusive of 2,072 who died of wounds while in the enemy's hands, and 3,218 others who died from various causes, known and unknown. As to what proportion of these 24,866 deaths was due to harsh treatment, instead of -disease, it would be difficult to say. In. the Northern military prisons, where the inmates were furnished with good food and quarters, the death rate was nearly the same; 30,152 Confederates died in Northern prisons.f But these pages have nothing to do with the prison question other than the statistics. * la addition to this number, there were 5,290 who died while prisoners, and who are included in the other items ot this classification. The total number of Union soldiers who died while in the hands of the enemy according to this official report was 30,156. The causes of their deaths are classified as follows: From disease, 24.866; wounds, 2,072; sunstroke, 20: accidents, 7; drowning, 7; killed after capture, 104; executed by the enemy, 64; causes known, but not classified, 319; cause not stated, 2,697; total, 30,156. But, owing to the imperfect records kept at some of the Confederate prisons, the deaths are not all included in the foregoing statement. The mortality of Uniou prisoners, as shown by the graves, has been estimated at 86,401. t Congressional Documents: Report of House Committee on treatment of prisoners, 1869, page 231. (But this number, 30,152 does not include the deaths at Johnson's Island ao'd some other places of confinement; neither does it include deaths from wounds in field hospitals.) _02675
