The Crimean War 1854 750,000 The Italian War 1859 63,000 Our Civil War, North and South (killed and died in other ways) 1,000,000 The Prussian-Austrian War 1866 45,000 The expeditions to Mexico, China, Morocco, etc 65,000 The Franco-German War 1870 250,000 The Russo-Turkish War 1877 225,000 The Zulu and Afghan Wars 1879 40,000 The Chinese-Japanese War 1894 10,000 The Spanish-American War 5,000 The Philippine War 1899 { Americans 5,000 { Filipinos 1,000,000 The Boer War (killed and wounded) { Boers 25,000 { British 100,000 The Russo-Japanese War 450,500 These are probably all under the actual facts. BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD, Secretary American Peace Society. The drama here revealed by the lens is one of intense realism. In it one can almost hear the beat of the drum and the call of the bugle. It throbs with all the passions known to humanity. It brings one face to face with the madness of battle, the thrill of victory, the broken heart of defeat. There is in it the loyalty of comradeship, the tenderness of brotherhood, the pathos of the soldier's last hour; the willingness to sacrifice, the fidelity to principle, the love of country. Far be it from the power of these old negatives to bring back the memory of forgotten dissensions or long-gone contentions. Whatever may have been the differences that threw a million of America's strongest manhood into bloody combat, each one offered his life for what he believed to be _the right_. The American People today are more strongly united then ever before--North, South, East and West, all are working for the moral, the intellectual, the industrial and political upbuilding of Our Beloved Land. The path of Progress has been blazed by fire. Strong men with strong purposes have thrown their lives on the altar of civilization that their children and their children's children might live and work in the light of a new epoch that found its birth in the agonizing throes of human sacrifice. From the beginning of all ages the soldier has been, and always must be, a _mighty man_.