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The latest return of killed, wounded, and prisoners during the

war makes the killed in action 2,666, and the " died of wounds" 695, while the "died of disease" are 4,535, the wounded 11,576, and the prisoners 1,986. Thus the deaths are in all 8,059. Over 20,000 men and officers have been invalided home. It will be noted that, as usual, disease has canted off nearly doable the number of victims claimed by the rifle and the cannon. The number of men who have died from wounds, considering the large number of wounded, is most gratify. ingly small. In the wars of former days to be wounded was for the common soldier almost the equivalent of being killed outright, so small was the percentage of recovery.