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or disabled. If we apply the same ratio
of enlistments in the other States that held out during the war,
and make an approximation of the numbers sent out from the remainder
of the slave States, we shall have the following interesting table:
States. |
Enlistments. |
Dead and Disabled. |
Alabama
Arkansas, say
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky, say
Louisiana, say
Mississippi
Missouri, say
Maryland, say
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee, say
Texas, say
Virginia, say
Total
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120,000
50,000
17,000
131,000
50,000
50,000
78,600
40,000
40,000
140,000
60,000
60,000
93,000
180,000
1,124,000
| 70,000
30,000
10,000
75,000
30,000
34,000
45,000
24,000
24,000
85,000
34,000
34,000
53,000
105,000
660,000
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If all the men who were once got into the rebel army
were retained during the war, or during their ability to serve,
there were, according to this calculation, 464,000 men in the
rebel service at the close of the war. But if allowances be made
for desertion, &c., and for the sick in the hospitals who
have recovered and are not counted by Governor Parsons among the
disabled, we shall find this number of 464,000 diminished to something
like the actual number that either surrendered to our forces or
scattered to their homes immediately after the fall of Richmond.
It seems, therefore, from this verification of the solution of
the problem, that Governor Parsons was not very far from the truth,
and that we have made about the proper allowances in filling up
the table.
PLANNING CAMPAIGNS.
The following quotation from a response made by General
Sherman to his reception at St. Louis, gives a good general view
of the campaigns in which our Southwestern army was engaged: | |