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Regimental Losses in the American Civil War
(1861-1865)
Product Code: US0221
Number of CDs: 1
Authors: William F. Fox
Pages: 603
Pub. Date: 1889
ISBN: 1933828412
William Fox has created a massive reference work, which brings together in one
place statistics on all those killed on the Union side in the Civil War. By
cross-referencing the data in various ways, the author provides many useful
insights on the course of the war and the ways that men might
die.
This book was prepared as the government was compiling the
massive, multi-volume Official Records of the war. By arranging the data in
different ways, Fox has made this volume an essential companion volume to the
Official Records, providing an easy way to determine where the regiments fit
into the higher level of brigade, division and corps, and which battles the
regiments participated in.
The information is arranged by battle, by
state and in various other ways. A chapter on "Muster-out Rolls" provides many
specific records of how individual, named men died, whether on the battlefield,
in prison, in hospital, or by accident.
The core of the volume, consuming
half the pages and justifying the main title, is Chapter X, "Three Hundred
Fighting Regiments - Statistics and Historical Sketch of Each." This chapter
collects detailed information on those regiments with the highest number (or the
highest percentage) of those killed in action or who died of other causes
related to action. One page is devoted to each regiment, listing first the place
of the regiment in the order of battle, and the successive commanders of each
regiment. This is followed by a company-by-company compilation of the numbers of
those "killed and died of wounds" and of those who "died [of] disease,
accidents, in prison, &c." Next comes a list of the number of "killed &
mortally wounded" in each battle in which the regiment fought. The page
concludes with a series of notes, usually arranged in chronological
order.
Summary by Robert Charles Anderson, FASG for Archive
CD Books USA
The comprehensive book also provides :
- a complete
chronological list of Civil War battles, with the official figures for the
casualties in each.
- a complete historical sketch of each corps. -
records of colored troops, including the history, organization, and official
figures for their losses, by regiments and engagements.
- losses in the Navy,
with list of naval engagements, showing loss on each vessel.
- the number of
deaths in military prisons.
- the percentage of deaths from wounds.
- the
proportion of wounded to killed.
- the loss in officers, with proportion of
loss to that of enlisted men.
- a list of Union generals killed
- losses
among Surgeons, Quartermasters and non-combatants
- a list of Chaplains
killed in battle
- the number of deaths in each arm of the service—cavalry,
artillery and infantry.
- losses in the Regular Army, by regiments.
- the
age, height and weight of American soldiers, with other important
anthropological statistics.
- the aggregate of deaths during the war, with
classified causes.
- the total number of enlistments .
- the strength of
the army at various dates, present and absent.
- the number of men furnished
by each State.
- the percentage of military population furnished by each
State.
- the number and percentage of loss of each State, by battle, and by
disease or other causes.
- the number of drafted men and substitutes
- the
number of commutations, etc.
The final chapter deals with the losses in
the Confederate Army and Navy, including:
- leading Confederate regiments in
point of loss, at each battle.
- a list of Confederate generals killed
- the strength of Confederate Armies
- the number of Confederate regiments from
each State
- the total Confederate loss.
- the military population of
Confederate States in 1861.
- losses in Confederate Navy, by vessels and
engagements, etc.
This CD is fully searchable and can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat
Reader
(version 4 or later recommended) on any Windows, Macintosh, or Unix
computer. The data on this CD is completely self-contained, and
requires no
installation.
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