. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . have their well-earned honors though the fameof others suffer thereby. James Longstreet. LOSSES AT ANTIETAM. Killed Wounded Missing Total. Union Army 2108 9549 753 12,410. Confederate Army 1253 6980 3200 11,433. There is not the slightest reason for doubting thatmany of the missing of Lees army were killed,and if the number could be ascertained it would verymaterially increase that class of casualties. GeneralMcClellan (page 67, Vol. XIX.) says that about2700 of the enemys dead were . . counted andburied upon the battle-field of Antietam; al
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . have their well-earned honors though the fameof others suffer thereby. James Longstreet. LOSSES AT ANTIETAM. Killed Wounded Missing Total. Union Army 2108 9549 753 12,410. Confederate Army 1253 6980 3200 11,433. There is not the slightest reason for doubting thatmany of the missing of Lees army were killed,and if the number could be ascertained it would verymaterially increase that class of casualties. GeneralMcClellan (page 67, Vol. XIX.) says that about2700 of the enemys dead were . . counted andburied upon the battle-field of Antietam; also, that a portion of their dead had been previously buriedby the enemy. — Editor. ANTIETAM SCENES. THE cannon werethundering when atearly morn, Septem-ber 17, 1862, I mounted my horse•n at Hagerstown,s • where I had arrivedthe preceding day,upon its evacuationby the Confeder-ates. The peopleof the town,arousedby the cannonade,were at the win-dows of the houses,or in the streets,standing in groups,stening to the reverberations rolling along. CONFEDERATE WOODEN CANTEENFOUND AT ANTIETAM. the valley. The wind was south-west, theclouds hanging low, and sweeping the tree-tops on South Mountain. The cannonade, reverberating from cloud tomountain and from mountain to cloud, be-came a continuous roar, like the unbrokenroll of a thunder-storm. Wafted by the gen-tle breeze, it made the battle seem muchnearer than it was. I was fully seven milesfrom Hookers battlefield. I turned down the Hagerstown and Sharps-burg turnpike at a brisk gallop, althoughknowing that Lees army was in possession ofthe thoroughfare by the toll-gate then standingabout two miles north of Sharpsburg. A citi-zen who had left his home, to be beyondharm during the battle, gave me the infor-mation. The thought uppermost in my mind 316 AXTIETAM SCENES. was to gain the left flank of the Confederatearmy, mingle with the citizens, and so wit-ness the battle from the Confederate side. Itwould be a grand accomplishment
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