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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
action, probably killed. No attempt has been made to give statistics as to the number of wounded in action, because the method of recording these differed so greatly in different regiments—some officers recording very slight wounds and others ignoring all but serious ones—that there exists no solid basis of comparison. The prison list, which follows later, is mainly prepared from several unofficial manuscript books on file at the Adjutant-General's Office, purporting to give lists of Massachusetts officers and soldiers who died either in Confederate prisons or in the camps of paroled prisoners. These books give also the dates of their supposed deaths, the whole being made up largely from the affidavits of returning comrades. The precise authorship of these books is now unknown, but they were probably compiled under the general direction of Col. Gardner Tufts, State Relief Agent at Washington, who was in the habit of sending out men to meet returned prisoners and to obtain infor
Gardner Tufts (search for this): chapter 1
inly prepared from several unofficial manuscript books on file at the Adjutant-General's Office, purporting to give lists of Massachusetts officers and soldiers who died either in Confederate prisons or in the camps of paroled prisoners. These books give also the dates of their supposed deaths, the whole being made up largely from the affidavits of returning comrades. The precise authorship of these books is now unknown, but they were probably compiled under the general direction of Col. Gardner Tufts, State Relief Agent at Washington, who was in the habit of sending out men to meet returned prisoners and to obtain information as to those left behind. This information was necessarily hearsay evidence, and in many cases may have proved incorrect, or only approximate. It was easy to err in regard to the middle initial of a soldier's name, or to forget whether he had served in the 2d Infantry or 2d Cavalry; especially if he had, as sometimes happened to a prisoner, exchanged his own
Stonewall Jackson (search for this): chapter 1
ximate figures. It is now the general tendency of military statisticians to class the mortally wounded with the killed, not with the wounded; and yet it is impossible to establish any but an arbitrary limit for this classification, since a man may be mortally wounded and yet live for many weeks or even months. In the same way it is impossible to discriminate positively between those mortally wounded and those dying in prison; or even to determine whether a soldier—as in the case of Stonewall Jackson—was killed accidentally or by the enemy. In all cases the figures here given replace entirely those given in a circular of inquiry, in pamphlet form, printed and distributed from this office in 1891, and based on the comparatively scanty information then attainable. None of the present tables are taken from those in the printed regimental histories, though much use has been made of these; but they are all based on manuscript name-lists prepared for the purpose and founded (1) on prin
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mit for this classification, since a man may be mortally wounded and yet live for many weeks or even months. In the same way it is impossible to discriminate positively between those mortally wounded and those dying in prison; or even to determine whether a soldier—as in the case of Stonewall Jackson—was killed accidentally or by the enemy. In all cases the figures here given replace entirely those given in a circular of inquiry, in pamphlet form, printed and distributed from this office in 1891, and based on the comparatively scanty information then attainable. None of the present tables are taken from those in the printed regimental histories, though much use has been made of these; but they are all based on manuscript name-lists prepared for the purpose and founded (1) on printed State records, (2) on original muster rolls and monthly returns, (3) on corrections received from the United States War Department, usually through the office of the Massachusetts Adjutant-General, but s