Prison Deaths and Prisoners.
The number of Confederate prisoners in Northern prisons was 220,000, and the number of Federal prisoners in prisons South was 270,000.
| Death rate in Northern prisons | 12 per cent |
| Death rate in Southern prisons | 9 per cent |
See the report of Secretary Stanton, made July 9, 1866; also the report of Surgeon General Barnes, United States Army.
Some of the Brigade Losses in Particular Engagements.
| Gettysburg | Garnett's Brigade (Va.) | Pickett's Division | 65.9 per cent |
| Gettysburg | Perry's Brigade (Fla.) | Anderson's Division | 65 per cent |
| Antietam | Wofford's Brigade (Tex.) | Hood's Division | 64.1 per cent |
| Franklin | Cockrell's Brigade (Mo.) | French's Division | 60.2 per cent |
| Chickamauga | Benning's Brigade (Ga.) | Hood's Division | 56.6 per cent |
There are thirteen more brigades with losses, varying in numbers, before the percentage is reduced to forty per cent.
Percentage of Loss in Some Regiments in Single Battles.
| Gettysburg | Twenty-First North Carolina | 90 per cent |
| Gettysburg | First Missouri | 82 per cent |
| Gettysburg | Twenty-Sixth North Carolina | 88.5 per cent |
| Antietam | Twentieth Texas | 82.3 per cent |
| Antietam | Twelfth Massachusetts | 67 per cent |
| Antietam | Twenty-First Georgia | 76 per cent |
| Antietam | One Hundred and First New York | 71 per cent |
And so on. There are over fifty regiments in the Confederate army before forty per cent is reached. How many there are in the Federal army I do not know. (From "The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War," and other sources.)