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The resolution was reported to the senate and received the presidential sanction on Feb. I, and the same day the fact was telegraphed by Senator Trumbull to Gov. Oglesby, who immedi- ately communicated the same in a message to the legislature, in which he said: "Let Illinois be the first state in the Union to ratify by act of her legislature this proposed amendment. It
* Congressional Globe, 1863-4, part 2, 1490.
+ Ibid., 1865, part 1, 531.
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is just, it is humane, it is right to do so. It is a fit occa- sion to speak out to the world upon a question of such magni- tude, and the whole civilized world will joyously ratify the deed; the proud soldier in the field will shout 'amen' and march on to new victories with a firmer and more confident step."
In the senate, on motion of A. W. Mack, the rules were sus- pended, and he presented the joint-resolution for ratification, which was read and referred to the committee on federal rela- tions. Afterward, on the same day, the resolution was called up and its adoption moved. Senators Green and Cohrs made speeches against the measure, and Gen. Murray McConnel, "the Nestor of the senate," the friend of Douglas, and for over a quarter of a century a leading and influential democrat, made a most able, eloquent, and patriotic speech in its favor .* Senator Vandeveer moved to lay the resolution on the table, which was negatived by the close vote of 12 to II. The previous question having been moved and carried, the joint-resolution was adopted by a vote of 18 to 6.
Those voting in the affirmative were: Senators Addams, Allen, Bushnell, Eastman, Green of Marion, Lansing, Lindsay (democrat), Mack, Mason (democrat), Mc Connel (democrat), Metcalf, Peters, Richards, Strain, Schofield (democrat), Ward, Webster, and Worcester (democrat). Those voting in the nega- tive were: Senators Cohrs, Green of Alexander, Hunter, Riley, Vanderveer, and Wescott, all democrats. Senator Funk (repub- lican) absent.
This action of the senate having been reported to the house, Alexander McCoy moved that the latter body concur. The previous question having been moved by Merritt L. Josslyn and carried, the joint-resolution was adopted by a vote of 58 to 28. Six democrats did not record their votes, all the others voted in opposition.
And thus it transpired that Illinois was the first to act, in advance of all other states, in ratifying this amendment which secured freedom to the slave.+ The proceedings, unlike those
* Gov. Bross' " Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment."
+ Rhode Island and Michigan were the next states to adopt the amendment, on February 2-the last of the requisite twenty-five states being Georgia, Dec. 6, 1865. Oregon, California, and Florida subsequently ratified the amendment, while the states of Delaware, Kentucky, and New Jersey rejected it.
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in congress, were characterized by great solemnity and decorum. Following this action came the repeal of the black laws which had for so many years darkened the pages of our State statutes.
The twenty-fourth general assembly adjourned on February 16, after a session of 46 days. As a body, its proceedings were in striking contrast to those of its immediate predecessor. There were no angry discussions, no personalities, no charges of disloyalty. The work it accomplished was as diverse as it was far reaching. As summarized by Speaker Fuller in his closing remarks, 533 senate and 336 house-bills were passed. Of these, only 91 were general in their character, 155 related to incorporations of towns, 102 to legalizing taxes for bounty purposes, 84 insurance charters, 61 railroad charters and amend- ments, 52 relating to school-laws and education, and the bal- ance to miscellaneous and local incorporations, relief bills, and courts.
Under the last call of the president for troops, Illinois had furnished 18,500 men before March 6, and recruiting was pro- gressing favorably when, on April 13, it was brought to an abrupt close by order of the secretary of war.
The surrender of Lee at Appomattox, on April 9; of John- son, on April 26; and of Jones, Thompson, and Kirby Smith, all in the same month-by which over 100,000 combatants had laid down their arms-brought the great war of the rebellion to a successful termination .*
Lee had remained too long in his entrenchments before Rich- mond and Petersburg to find it possible successfully to retreat. Had he succeeded in retiring sooner and in effecting a junction with Johnson-if such were his desire-he might have still remained at the head of a formidable army, and the struggle might, perhaps, have been prolonged another year. But destiny had ordered otherwise, and the collapse of the confederacy, after its downfall had begun, was as swift and complete as its rise had been sudden and widespread.
The tidings of the fall of Richmond-assuring, as it did, the
* The respective commands of the Southern leaders named who thus became prisoners of war numbered as follows: Lee's, 26,000; Johnson's, 29,924; Taylor's, 10,000; Jones', Sooo; Thompson's, 7454; Smith's, 20,000:
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ultimate triumph of the cause of the Union-thrilled the great popular heart of the North with a joy almost delirious in its intensity, and which found expression in modes as multiform as they were felt to be inadequate.
From the chimes hanging in the massive temples of the metropolis, and from the modest belfry that surmounted the humble meeting-house of the country village, pealed forth the bells whose iron tongues sounded sweetly in ears to which they chanted their tale of ended strife; of a people now, for the first time, really free, and of a Union to be forever indissoluble. From crowded thoroughfares leaped forth the flames of blazing bonfires, in whose light rejoiced exultant crowds whose eyes were lifted with a love and veneration never felt before toward the ensign of a new and perpetual republic, whose stars shone with a fresh lustre, since their light no longer fell upon the shackles of a slave. And the silent thanksgiving that welled up in every breast found voice in public utterances of praise to Him to whom our forefathers had commended the infant Union of States.
But the gladness of the hour was suddenly transformed into a grief as bitter as the joy had been exultant. The telegraph- wires, on the morning of April 15, flashed across the continent the intelligence that blanched the cheeks of those who heard it as though touched by the icy hand of death, and brought into every home a sense of desolation akin to that which comes with a sudden personal bereavement.
On Good Friday evening, April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a mad actor, of rebel sympathies and associates, entered the private box of the president at Ford's Theatre in Washington, and placing a pistol at the back of his victim's head fired a ball which pierced his brain. The president lingered, though un- conscious, until the next morning when his great soul passed from time to eternity. The chants of victory were changed into cries of woe; the peans of triumph into the saddest of requiems.
But there remained a great consolation. Not in vain had Abraham Lincoln offered on the altar of patriotism the best years of his manhood, the highest powers of his mind - even the life-blood of that great heart which had never throbbed with a selfish impulse. He had lived to see the fetters fall from
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4,000,000 bondmen; to witness the triumphant termination of that gigantic struggle in which for four years he had been the central figure, and which triumph his sagacity, his patience, his unwearying devotion had rendered possible. His eyes had beheld the flag, for whose supremacy he had died, floating over the capital of the rebellion. His life had been devoted to the presentation before the bar of public opinion the cause of human freedom and equal rights; that life did not close until he had seen the glorious success of that cause in the court of ultimate resort-the appeal to arms.
And it must be conceded, that if it had been ordained that that great life was to end by the hand of an assassin, no hour could have been selected which would more surely bestow upon the victim the crown of martyrdom. Abraham Lincoln died in the zenith of his fame. His grand work was finished. It was not his destiny to be called upon to grapple with the perplexing problems of reconstruction, nor to participate in the feuds to which these disturbing and yet unsettled problems gave birth. His fame abides unsullied and unquestioned; and before his shrine, in the hearts of his countrymen, there passes no cloud.
The sombre shadow of grief which overcast the land at his death did not begin to lift until, after continuous and imposing funeral ceremonies, extending from Washington for over sixteen hundred miles, his remains were laid at rest in Oak-Ridge Cemetery, near his old home in Springfield, May 4, 1865.
An association was organized on May 1I, of which Governor Oglesby was president, for the purpose of erecting a monument to his memory. Nearly $200,000 was raised for this purpose, of which $50,000 was contributed by the State of Illinois, $10,000 by New York, $1000 by Missouri, and $500 by Nevada; the balance was made up of individual subscriptions from soldiers and sailors, Sunday - school scholars, churches, and benevolent societies. The monument having been completed, the ceremonies of dedication occurred Oct. 15, 1874, in the presence of an immense concourse. Gen. John M. Palmer presided and Gov. Oglesby delivered the oration. President Grant, Vice- President Henry Wilson, and Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, with many other distinguished guests, were present and made addresses.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
The Civil War-Number of Troops Engaged - Battles -Losses-Illinois in the War-Quotas-Troops Fur- nished by Each County-Bounties Paid-Regimental Losses at Fort Donelson - Shiloh -Stone River - Chickamauga - Missionary Ridge - Other Battles - Percentage of Losses-Officers from Illinois-Work of the "Stay-at-Homes"- Sanitary and Christian Commissions-Union League-Songs of the War.
T `HE war of the rebellion will take its place in history among the greater wars of modern times. It was remarkable not only on account of the magnitude of the issues involved, but also for the numbers engaged, the length of its duration, and the valor displayed by the soldiers of both sides, on many hotly-contested fields.
The number of volunteers given in the table on the next page includes the enlistments for all terms of service except those for less than ninety days. In addition, during the war there were recruited for the regular army about 67,000 men, not more than two-thirds of whom were credited to the respective states from which they came. The following totals also in- clude all veterans and others whose names appear twice on the rolls. The number of colored troops in the table embraces only those who were organized in the confederate states-the whole number enlisted being 186,097.
The total number of officers and men in the Union army, if reduced to a standard of three years' service for each man, would be 2,326,168, who were organized into:
Artillery,
78 regiments and 2 companies.
Cavalry, - 272
= 2
11
Infantry,
1696
=
=
6 11
Total,
2047 regiments .*
* "Statistical Record," by Capt. Frederick Phisterer; "Regimental Losses," by William F. Fox.
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POPULATION, QUOTA, TROOPS ACTUALLY FURNISHED, AND NUMBER OF THOSE WHO PAID COMMUTATION IN EACH OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION :
NAME
POPULATION IN 1860
QUOTAS
TOTAL TROOPS FURNISHED
PAID COMMUT'N*
PER CENT POPUL'N
Maine,
628,279
73,587
70, 107
2,007
11.2
New Hampshire, -
- 326,073
35,897
33,937
692
IC.4
Vermont, -
315,098
32,074
33,288
1,974
10.6
Massachusetts,
1,231,066
139,095
146,730
5,318
II.I
Rhode Island,
174,620
18,898
23,236
463
13.3
Connecticut,
460, 147
44,797
55,864
1,515
12.2
New York,
3,880,735
507, 148
448,850
18,197
II.6
Pennsylvany,
672,035
92,820
76,814
4,196
11.4
Delaware,
2,906,215
385,369
337,936
28,171
11.6
Maryland,
'07,049
70,965
46,638
3,678
6.7
District of Columbia,
75,080
34,463
32,068
8.2
Ohio, -
2,339,511
13,973
16,534
338
22.0
Indiana,
1,350,428
199,788
196,363
784
14.5
Illinois,
1,711,951
244,496
259,092
55
15.1
Michigan,
749, 113
95,007
87,364
2,008
II.7
Wisconsin,
775,881
109,080
9.
1,327
5,097
11.8
Minnesota,
172,023
26,326
24,c'
120
1,032
14.0
Iowa, -
- 674,913
79,521
76,24
12
67
11.3
Missouri, -
1, 182,012
122,496
109, III
9.2
Kentucky,
1, 155,684
100,782
75,760
3,265
6.5
Kansas, -
107,206
12,931
20, 149
2
18.8
Tennessee,
1, 109, 801
1,560
31,092
2.8
Arkansas,
435,450
780
8,289
North Carolina,
- 992,622
1,560
3,156
California,
379,994
Nevada,
6,857
1,080
S
4. I
Oregon, -
52,465
Washington Territory,
11,594
964
1
8.3
Colorado Territory,
34,277
4,903
Dakota Territory,
206
New Mexico Territory,
93,516
6,561
7.0
Florida,
1,290
Louisiana,
5,224
Mississippi,
545
Texas,
-
1,965
Indian Nation,
3,530
-and
Colored troops,
99,337
Vice-
Total,
-
-
2,763, 670
2,778,304
86,724n many
* Number included in whole number furnished.
esses.
-
112,216
13,935
12,284
1, 386
II.O
West Virginia,
393, --
300,J.
313,180
6,479
Y
15.7
I,SIO
3.4
Nebraska Territory, -
28, 841
3,157
lı
10.9
14.3
Alabama,
-
2, 576
f
1.9
15,725
13.4
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STRENGTH OF THE ARMY-PRINCIPAL BATTLES.
The strength of the Union army at various periods* was:
PRESENT
ABSENT
TOTAL
Jan. 1, 1861,
14,663
1,704
16,367
July 1, 1861, -
183,588
3,163
186,75 I
Jan. 1, 1862,
527,204
48,713
575,917
Jan. 1, 1863, -
698,802 -
219,389
918,191
Jan. 1, 1864,
611,250
249,487
860,737
Jan. 1, 1865, -
620,924
338,536
959,460
Mar. 31, 1865,
657,747
322,359
980,086
May 1, 1865, -
797,807
202,709
1,000,516
-
During the war 2261 engagements took place-of which 156 were in 1861, 564 in 1862, 627 in 1863, 779 in 1864, and 135 in 1865. Of these, 519 occurred in Virginia, 298 in Tennessee, 244 in Missouri, 186 in Mississippi, 167 in Arkansas, 138 in Kentucky, 85 in North Carolina, 50 in West Virginia, 78 in Alabama, and 60 in South Carolina.
The table on the following page, prepared from authentic sources of information, exhibits the numbers engaged and the killed, wounded, captured, and missing, in some of the principal battles of the war.
The difficulties in the way of attaining absolute accuracy as to particulars in regard to most of these engagements appear to be insuperable. At Antietam for instance, Colonel Walter H. Taylor, in his "Four Years with General Lee," insists that the confederate force numbered only 35,255. The Richmond Enquirer, in its account of the battle, places Lee's strength at 60,000; while Pollard, in his southern history, says, that Lee had 45,000 when the battle commenced and that this number was increased to 70,000 before its close. The official returns of the army of Virginia on September 22, only five days after the battle, showed present for duty 36,187, infantry and artil- lery.+ The number here given is obtained by adding to this admitted return, the conceded losses-12,601, and the cavalry, after deducting 2000 for incoming stragglers.
Gen. McClellan's force in this engagement, as stated by him- was 87,164; but it must be borne in mind, in all these
* "States, that the returns of Union officers differed from those William F.
ost-Marshal General's Report." + Davis' "Rise and Fall," II, 343.
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of the confederates in this respect, that while the former reck- oned as present for duty all those who received pay, including musicians, teamsters, special details, and artificers, the latter
NAME, DATE, NUMBER ENGAGED, KILLED, WOUNDED, CAPTURED, AND MISS- ING IN SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL BATTLES OF THE WAR OF REBELLION :
BATTLE OF
DATE
ENGAGED
KILLED
WOUNDED
CAPTURED OR
MISSING
TOTAL
PR CENT KILLED AND WOUNDED
Union Bull Run, Confed
July 21, 1861
*21,900
387
1, 582
13
1,982
9.
Ft. Donelson,
C.
Feb. 13-6, 1862
+19,600
466
1,534
13,829
15,829
IO.
Grant
Apr. 6, 7, 1862
+33,000
1,472
6,350
2,826
10,648
23.7
Wallace
7,
=
6,000
41
251
4
13,047
17.2
Confed.
=
6, 7,
=
+70,000
2,108
9,549
753
12,410
16.7
Antietam, -
C.
Sept. 17, 1862
+53,000
1,886
9,348
1,367
12,601
23.7
Perryville, -
C.
Oct. 8, 1862
§15,000
510
2,635
251
3,396
22.6
U.
Dec. 31, 1862,
$43,400
1,730
7,802
3,717
13,249
22.I
Stone's River,
C.
and Jan. 2, 1863
§46,600
1,294
7,945
1,027
10, 266
20.
Gettysburg,
C
July 1, 2, 3, 1863
1172,000
2,592
12,706
5,150
20,448
20.
Chickamauga,
C.
Sep. 18-9, 1863
§60,589
2,268
13,613
1,090
16,97I
26.2
U.
May 5, 7, 1864
118,769
2,246
12,037
3,383
17,666
12.
Wilderness,
C.
61,000
k. & W.
estim'd
8,000
13.2
* James B. Fry in Century Magazine, xxix, 31; " Rebellion Record, " II, 110.
+ "From Fort Henry to Corinth, " M. F. Force, 60-2; "War of the Rebellion," Official Reports, Ser. i, x; Grant's and Sherman's " Memoirs"; " Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," in Century Magazine, xxix to xxxiv. It is evident that the confederate losses at Shiloh as above are not placed high enough. Reports of colonels show this; and indeed William P. Johnson admits a loss of 218 killed in addition to those reported.
# "The Antietam and Fredericksburg," by F. W. Palfrey; William Swinton's "Campaigns"; Official Reports in "Rebellion Record " and "War of the Rebellion." § Official Reports; "Chickamauga," by John B. Turchin, 240; Century Magazine; " The Army of the Cumberland, " by Henry M. Cist. At Perryville, the principal fighting was done by the corps of Gen. Alexander McD. McCook which numbered 14,000, and lost in killed and wounded 3299-over 23 per cent.
Il " Gettysburg," by Henry J. Hunt, Century Magazine, xxxiii; Swinton, supra; Pollard's "Southern History of the War"; Davis' " Rise and Fall of the Southern Confederate Government "; and Taylor's "Four Years with Gen. Lee." The con- federate losses at Gettysburg, as here given, are also undoubtedly much too small, as appears by the table of reports in " Rebellion Records, " Vol. XXVII. They lost also more in prisoners than they admitted.
Shiloh
Buel
11
7,
=
+41,000
1,728
8,012
I,175
10,915
23.7
U.
§22,000
845
2,943
489
4.277
19.
U.
1182,000
3,063
14,492
5,435
22,990
21.4
U.
§57,840
1,656
9,749
4,774
16,179
20.
-
U.
*18,572
470
I,071
1,793
2,334
8.3
U.
+27,000
500
2, 108
224
2,832
IO.
20,000
241
1,807
55
729
STATISTICAL DIFFICULTIES.
reported only actual combatants. Estimating the Union army, after the confederate method, the number of troops engaged did not exceed 70,000; and of these the fifth and sixth corps and cavalry division-numbering 20,000 effectives-being held in reserve, lost only 596-less than three per cent of their number.
The battle of Gettysburg affords another illustration-Gen. Meade, in his testimony on the conduct of the war, stated that his army numbered 94,000. The return of those "present for duty" on the morning of June 30, 1863, showed 77,208 infan- try .* If to these figures be added the cavalry and artillery, the aggregate will approach very closely the number given by him. The Comte de Paris, however, in his history of the war, esti- mates that Meade had only 82,000 actually on the field.
In respect to the strength of the confederates, Lee had 68,000 · infantry in his command at the end of May and admitted that his effective force at Chambersburg, a few days before the bat- tle, was 70,000. Davis, in his "Rise and Fall," gives the rebel strength at Gettysburg at only 62,000. This estimate, however, undoubtedly too low, excludes the cavalry, only a portion of which was engaged and which is included in the table.
The same difficulty exists with regard to the number of killed and wounded. Gen. Grant insists that at Shiloh the confederate estimate as given in the table "must be incorrect," and says that "We found by actual count more of the enemy's dead in front of the divisions of McClernand and Sherman alone than here reported (1728).+
The confederate loss in killed at Corinth was reported to be 505, and yet Gen. Rosecrans, in his report at the time and reiterated in a late account of the battle by him in the Century Magazine, states the number to have been 1423.#
The severity of the fighting in these sanguinary engagements in comparison with other celebrated battles, in our own and other countries, is shown in the following table compiled from the most trustworthy sources of information. The losses given in the tables are generally those presented in the official reports of either side.
* Swinton's "Campaigns, " 310. + Grant's "Memoirs," i, 367.
# Century Magazine, vol. xxxii, 901. " War of the Rebellion," xvii, 170.
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NAME, DATE, NUMBER ENGAGED, KILLED, WOUNDED, CAPTURED, AND MISS- ING, AND PER CENT KILLED AND WOUNDED IN CELEBRATED BATTLES OF THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES :
BATTLE OF
DATE
NO. EN- GAGED
KILLED
WOUN'D
CAPT'D OR MISS
TOTAL
KIL'D WOUN
Blenheim,
Marlborough
Aug. 13, 1704
60,000 12,000
8,000
15,200 35, 200
Zorndorf,
Russians
Aug. 25, 1758
50,000 21,531
=
=
21,531
Marengo,
Allies
June 14, 1800
31,000
7,000
:
3,000
10,000
22,6
Austerlitz,
Allies
Dcc. 2, 1805
80,000
10,400
=
19,600
30,000
13.
Borodino,
- Russians
June 18, 1815
74,100
5,000
15,000
6,300 26,300
27.
Waterloo,
Wellington
Allies
Sept. 20, 1854
40,000
4,600 k. & W.
400
5,000
10.5
Solferino,
Austrians
June 24, 1859
150,000 18,249
11
18,249
12.1
Sadowa,
Austrians
July 3, 1866
212,000
20,000
=
11
10,000 50,000
21.
Gravelotte,
French
25,000}
14.3
Bunker Hill,
British
June 17, 1775
3,500
226
828
1,054
30.
Germantown,
British
Oct. 4, 1777
15,000
75
456
14
525
5.
Monmouth,
British
June 28, 1778
10,000
249
170
61
480
4.
Eutaw Springs,
British
Sept. 8, 1781
2,000
85
608 & miss.
693
-
American
July 5, 1814
2,200
236
352
46
634
26.
Lundy's Lane,
British
July 25, 1814
3,200
84
559
235
878
20.
New Orleans,
- British
Jan. 8, 1815
6,300
293
1, 267
482
2,042
24.7
Buena Vista,
. Mexican
17,000
500|k., w.,
1,000
1, 500
3.
American
3,154
191
588
20
799
24.7
Moleno del Rey,
Mexican
14,000
230 k., w.,
852
1,0821
2.
60,000
5,000
8,000
13,000
n French and Bavarians
. Fred'k II
30,000 11,390
k., w.,
& miss.
11,390
29, 100
7,000
11
7,000
24.
90,000
12,000
=
12,000
13.
Napoleon
Sept. 7, 1812
72,720
4,206
14,539
4,231
22,976
25.7
Alma,
Russians
French and S.
Aug. 18, 1870
146,000
4,449 15, 189
939 20,577
13.4
American
36
453
22.7
American
11,000
152
521
400
1,073
6.
American
10,500
69
160
130
359
2.
American
2,310
114
262
32
408
16.
3,300
61
255
19
335
9.5
Chippewa, .
. British
American
3,800
171
571
IIO
852
20.
American
4,750
8
13
21
.5
American
Feb. 23, 1847
4,700
267
456
23
74
15.
* Authorities consulted :- Mulhall's " Dictionary of Statistics;" Abbott's " Frederick the Great"; "Haydn's Dictionary of Dates"; "New American Cyclopedia"; Ali- son's "History of Europe"; Creasy's "Fifteen Decisive Battles"; " Encyclopædia Britannica"; Gordon's "History of the American War"; Marshall's and Irving's "Washington"; Carrington's " Battles of the American Revolution"; ",Bunker-Hill Battle," by Geo. E. Ellis; Butler's and Graham's "History of the United States"; Niles' Register; Lossing's " War of 1812"; Armstrong's " Notices of the War of 1812"; James' " Military Occurrences of the Late War" [1812]; Parton's and Eaton's " Andrew Jackson."
The following table shows the total losses in the Union Army during the war of the rebellion from all causes:
22.
1 30,000 50,000
11
& miss. 50,000
. Napoleon
50,000
589
2,699
3,288
6.5
170,000 19,941
7,000 26,941
II.7
· Prussians
20,000
9.4
· Prussians
174,000 25,000 k. & W.
1,835
139
278
Napoleon
Napoleon
125,000 28,085
=
28,085
PR CT
Sept. 8, 1847
190,000 40,000
731
UNION LOSSES.
LOSSES IN THE UNION ARMY DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION FROM ALL CAUSES :
WHOLE NUMBER
KILLED IN BATTLE
DIED OF WOUNDS
DIED OF DISEASE
OTHER CAUSES
DEATHS
Maine,
64,973
1,773
1,4II
5,798
416
9,398
New Hampshire,
32,930
1,074
829
2,721
258
4,882
Vermont,
-
32,549
1,061
748
3,083
332
5,224
Massachusetts,
122,781
3,705
2,410
7,013
814
13,942
Rhode Island,
19,521
296
164
732
129
1,321
Connecticut,
51,937
1,102
845
3,068
339
5,354
New York,
409,561
12,IOI
6,984
24,545
2,904
46,534
New Jersey, -
67,500
1,664
914
2,834
342
5,754
Pennsylvania,
315,017
9,351
5,914
15,90I
2,017
33, 183
Delaware,
11,236
207
176
431
68
882
Maryland,
33,995
527
382
1,807
266
2,982
West Virginia,
31,872
778
469
2,495
275
4,017
District of Columbia,
- 11,912
28
I3
194
55
290
Ohio,
304,814
6,835
4,753
21,721
2,166
35,475
Indiana,
193,748
4,272
2,97I
17,785
1,644
26,672
Illinois,
255,057
5,874
4,020
22,786
2, 154
34,834
Michigan, -
85,479
2,798
1,650
9,537
768
14,753
Wisconsin,
91,029
2,385
1,417
8,068
431
12,301
Minnesota,
- 23,913
394
232
1,836
122
2,584
Iowa,
75,797
2,065
1,475
9,013
448
13,001
Missouri, -
100,616
2, 191
1,126
9,468
1,100
13,885
Kentucky,
51,743
1,485
993
7,243
1,053
10,774
Kansas,
18,069
518
219
1,674
219
2,630
Tennessee,
31,092
466
278
5,236
797
6,777
Arkansas,
8,289
234
71
1,262
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