ston had them turned over to the
Federal authorities for safe keeping. Consequently, the Confederate
rolls on file in Washington are quite incomplete, and the loss
impossible to ever be made good.

The Federal authorities commenced immediately after the war to collect
their dead in suitable cemeteries, and the work of permanently marking
their graves continued systematically until the Federal loss in the
war can be very accurately estimated. There are seventy-five public
cemeteries for the burial of the Federal soldiers, in which are buried
three hundred and sixty thousand two hundred and seven; of these,
one hundred and thirty-nine thousand four hundred and ninety-six are
marked unknown. There were thirty-three thousand five hundred and
twenty negro soldiers buried in the cemeteries, and more than fifty
thousand Union dead never accounted for a great number of these fell
by the wayside during "Sherman's march to the sea;" lost by "Sherman's
rear guard," called by the Federal soldiers "Confederate bushwhackers"

The rolls of the Confederate dead in the archives at Washington, given
by States, are very unsatisfactory and necessarily incomplete Only two
States can even approximate their loss. But as this is the record in
Washington, I give it.

Killed. Died of Wounds. Died of Disease.
Virginia 5,328 2,519 6,947
North Carolina 14,522 5,151 20,602
South Carolina 9,187 3,725 4,700
Georgia 5,553 1,716 3,702
Florida 793 506 1,047
Alabama 552 190 724
Mississippi 5,807 2,651 6,807
Louisiana 2,612 858 3,059
Texas 1,348 1,241 1,260
Arkansas 2,165 915 3,872
Tennessee 2,115 874 3,425
Regulars 1,007 468 1,040
Border States 1,959 672 1,142
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Totals 52,954 21,570 59,297

In the above it will be seen that North Carolina, which may be
considered approximately correct, lost more than any other State.
Virginia furnished as many, if not more, troops than North Carolina,
still her