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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 703 687 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 558 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 529 203 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 90 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 83 23 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 81 23 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 68 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 66 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 62 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 54 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
00) these losses reach the figure assigned by Napoleon to the allies in the campaign of Waterloo, and exceeds that acknowledged by the allies (61,000) by 9,000 men. But there is this difference between the campaign of Waterloo and that of Spotsylvania. In the former, the slaughter on both sides was tremendous. The victors even suffered a greater loss than the vanquished. In the latter, the defeated party lost loop times as many men as the victorious party, according to the lowest computation, and nearly six times as many, according to the highest. It is true that Waterico ended in a rout, and that Spotsylvania did not. But the reason is obvious, Napoleon had no heavy fortifications in his immediate rear, at Grant had. But the indisposition of Grant's troops to attack our men in their entrenchments, since the lesson taught them on that day, tells the tale as intelligibly as a headlong flight and an over whelming pursuit could have done. The campaign of Waterloo was, for