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GRAND TOTAL OF CASUALTIES IN KILLED AND WOUNDED

Locality KiLLKD Wounded Officers Enlisted Men Officers Enlisted Men Cuba Porto Rico Manila Total 23 237 3 17 99 4 10 1 ,332 36 96 23 257 113 1,464 The number of deaths, from all causes, between May 1 and Sept. 30, in- clusive, as reported to the Adjutant-General's Office up to Oct. 3, were — Officers Enli.sted Men Killed Died of wounds Died of disease Total 23 4 80 257 61 2,485 107 2,803 being an aggregate of 2910 out of a total force of 274,717 officers and men, or a trifle over one per cent.

No compilations of the troops engaged or of the losses sus- tained in the various Iiidian wars have ever been made. The struggles having been conducted by the small regular army, usually attracted no attention unless attended with such trage- dies as the Dade or Custer massacres. The strength of the regular army and proportion of officers to enlisted men at various periods are shown in the following table :

Year General and Staff Officers Line Officers Total Commis- sioned Enlisted Men Proportion of General and Staff Officers to Enlisted Men Proportion. of Line Officers to Enlisted Men Proportion of All Com- missioned Officers to Enlisted Men 1792 . 1802 . 1817 . 1820 . 1826 . 1837 . • . 18.50 . 18,53 . 1855 . 1860 . 1878 . 1898 . 18981 . Averaj^e. 82 55 179 190 117 157 299 829 319 .348 562 5:35 .578 182 152 346 555 427 491 585 685 7.52 735 1..599 1,629 1.S78 214 207 525 745 544 W8 884 9W 1,071 1,088 2,161 2,164 2.4.56 5,120 3,067 7,. 580 12,011 5,&42 7,310 9,431 9,284 11,6.58 11,848 25,000 25,000 <W.106 1 to 160 1 to 55.78 1 to 42.35 1 to 63.22 1 to 48.22 1 to 46.56 1 to 81.54 1 to 28.22 1 to 86..55 1 to 84.05 1 to 44.48 1 to 46.73 1 to 109.18 1 to 28.13 1 to 20.18 1 to 21.91 1 to 21.64 1 to 13.21 1 to 14.89 1 to 16.12 1 to 14.62 1 to 1.5. .50 1 to 1G.12 1 to 15.68 1 to 1.5.35 1 to .33.60 1 to 23.88 1 to 14.82 1 to 14.44 1 to 16.12 1 to 10.87 1 to 11.28 1 to 10.67 1 to 9.m 1 to 10.89 1 to 10.94 1 to 11.57 1 to 11. .55 1 to 25.69 285 766 1,(151 15,081 1 to 52.99 1 to 19.67 1 to 14..35

1 In time of war with Spain.

The law requires that upon a restoration of peace the regular army shall be reduced to the strength it was prior to the war with Spain.