Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1878 — Russia’s Losses. [ARTICLE]

Russia’s Losses.

Official returns state that the Russian losses in killed and wounded during the late war amounted to 89,301 officers and men. Among these were ten Generals killed and eleven wounded. One Prince of the imperial family and thirty-four members of the higher nobility of Russia fell on the field of battle. Of the wounded, 36,824 are already perfectly recovered, and 10, 000 more will be able to leave the hospitals during the next few weeks. The proportion of killed and wounded to the total number engaged was very large, one out of every six men who went into action being either injured or left dead on the field of battle. In the great actions of the late FrancoGerman war the proportion of killed and wounded to the men engaged was very nearly the same, being one-sixth in the battles of Worth and Spicheren, and oneeighth in the battle of Mars-la-Tour. The returns also show that one out of every eleven wounded men received into the Russian hospitals died from the effects of the injuries received. During the whole campaign only two men were punished with death; one for the crime of desertion, the other for robbery, accompanied with violence. On the otht r hand, 20,000 rewards were given in the form of decorations, promotions, or awards of money, the Eight Corps, which so long held and defended the Schipka pass, receiving the greatest proportion.