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The Hurtle of Gettysburg.
According to the statements of the enemy's papers, the loss on both sides in the battle of Gettysburg was at least 50,000 men, killed and wounded.
This battle, then, was by far the bloodiest of the war; indeed, we do not think any battle has been fought in any part of the world since the battle of Waterloo, and the close of the great French wars, which bears any comparison with it in respect to carnage.
If the estimate of Napoleon be correct, even the results of that renowned conflict fall short of Gettysburg in the sum total.
He places the killed and wounded of the French and allies at about 45,000--considerably less than the loss on our field of slaughter.
We are naturally horror struck when we hear of such wholesale murder.
Fifty thousand men form the population of a large city Richmond, by census of 1860, did not reach quite 40,000.
It must be recollected that the population of a city is composed of all ages and sexes, while the victims of