6 JANUARY 1900, Page 25

THE COST OF THE AMERICAN WAR IN MEN AND MONEY.

[To TH2 EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1

SIB,—The British will not be behind their American cousins in bearing the strain of war. Our Civil War cost (as reported by the Hon. C. Depew in a speech) 88,000,000,000! (21,600,000,000). The number of men killed was six hundred thousand,—besides which over one million were disabled. At Gettysburg 82 per cent. of the 1st Minnesota Regiment were lost; the let Texas at Antietam lost 83 per cent. At Gettysburg Captain Tuttle's company (26th N. Carolina) went into action with three officers and eighty-four men. All of the officers and eighty-three of the men were killed