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 REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. ments numbered over 1,500 men, each ; and some of them over 1,800. The Confederacy organized but few new regiments after 1862 ; the recruits and conscripts were assigned to the old regiments to keep them up to an effective strength. The total loss of the Confederate Armies in killed and mortally wounded will never be definitely known, and can be stated only in round numbers. A summing up of the casualties at each battle and minor engagement—using official reports only, and in their absence accepting Confederate estimates — indicates that 94,000 men were killed or mortally wounded on the Confederate side during the war. In the report for 1S65-6, made by General James B. Fry, United States Provost Marshal-General, there is a tabulation of Confederate losses as compiled from the muster-rolls on file in the Bureau of Confederate Archives. The returns are incomplete, and nearly all the Alabama rolls are missing. Still the figures are worth noting, as they show that at least 74,524 were killed or died of wounds ; and, that 59,297 died of disease. From Gen. Fry's tabulation the following abstract is made : DEATHS IN CONFEDERATE ARMIES. If the Confederate rolls could have been completed, and then revised,—as has been done with the rolls of the Union regiments,—the number of killed as shown above (74,524) would be largely increased. As it is, the extent of such increase must remain a matter of con jecture. The Union rolls were examined at the same time , and a similar tabulation of the number killed appears, also, in General Fry's report. But this latter number was increased 15,000 by a subsequent revision based upon the papers known as " final statements." and upon newly-acquired information received through affidavits filed at the Pension Bureau. To understand the full meaning of these figures one must keep in mind the sparse popu lation of these States. Their military population in 1801 was : Alabama 99,967 | Louisiana.. 83,456 Arkansas 65,231 Florida 15,739 Georgia 111,005 Mississippi 70,295 North Carolina. 115,369 South Carolina. 55,046 Tennessee 159,353 Texas .. 92,145 Virginia . 196,587 *Total. 1,064,193 Of this number, Tennessee furnished 31,0i>2 to the Union Armies ; and the western counties of Virginia - - afterwards set apart as West Virginia--furnished 31,872 men. *In all countries—except newly-settled territories—the males included in the military ages, of 18 to 45, constitute one-fifth of the entire population. _16488
