Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — American Sacrifices Dead the Lise. [ARTICLE]

American Sacrifices Dead the Lise.

The charge at Balaklava will live forever in song; but the feat shrinks almost to triviality when we consider the facts. According to Kinglake, the Light Brigade took 67S officers and men into that charge': they lost but 113 men killed and 134 wounded, the total being 247, or 36.7 per cent. The heaviest loss in the German army during the Franoo-Prussian war, occurred in the Sixteenth Infantry (Third Westphalian) at Mars La Tonr, where it lost, in killed, wounded and missing, 49.4 per cent. But Col. Fox enumerates no less than sixty-three union regiments which lost over 50 per cent in single bat • ties of our own civil war without including others where the statistics are incomplete. In some of these cases, the bulk of the loss occurred within an hour. The First Minnesota at Gettysburg, in killed and wounded, 82 per cent, of the number that went in; The One Hun-dred-First New York lost 73.8 per cent, at Manassas; the Twenty-fifth Massauchusetts-lost 70 per tent, at Cold Harbor. “Every little helps to lighten the burden, as the captain said when he threw his wife overboard.