Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1898 — Regulars in War. [ARTICLE]

Regulars in War.

j The battle of Santiago was fought chiefly by the regulars of the United States army, and a proper Inscription will be made upon their regimental flags. In the civil war the small regular army was almost wiped out. It was distributed in the various corps and took part in nearly every great battle in the East and West. Their losses included 2.205 officers and men killed or mortally wounded in.action, and more than 3,000 died from disease. At Gettysburg two regular brigades lost nearly half their number killed and wounded. The Fifteenth Infantry lost during the Civil War 07 killed: 420 were wounded; 01 died of wounds and 50 died in prison. The American regular army has a splendid record.