The Number and Rosters of the Two Armies in the Civil War (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Number and Rosters of the Two Armies in the Civil War In this new era of universal devotion to the interests of our country. I am reluctant to revive the controversies of the past or to recall the victories or defeats of the Civil War. There is a subject, however, that has not received the attention from our military critics and writers at the North or South which its importance merits. I shall take the liberty, therefore, of considering briefly The Numbers and Rosters of the two Armies in the Civil War. The veterans of the Civil War, Federal and Confederate, are commending our able Secretary of War for his efforts to obtain the names, numbers, and full enrollment of the soldiers of the Confederacy. These records are necessary to complete the official history of the war, and to give just recognition to the American soldiers of the South. We have had very meager and indefinite figures by which to compare the number of enlistments and the magnitude of the two armies, Federal and Confederate, in the great conflict. Unfavorable comparisons and contrasts are frequently suggested as to the number of soldiers engaged upon each side, but I believe when the official rolls and figures arc placed on the same basis and finally reported and compared, there will be no room for contrasting criticism as to the magnitude of the two armies, or as to the courage, the prowess, or generalship of the American soldiers from the North or the South. Fortunately the names and full enrollment of the union forces arc complete. The official figures, embracing the entire rolls, the enlistments and re-enlistments for long and short terms of service, the one hundred days´ men, three months´ men, the ninety days´ men, the veteran reserve, the home guards, the colored troops, amount to the large aggregate enrollment of 2,778,304 men. This large total reduced to the basis of a full term enlistment for the war would probably cut down the aggregate number to about 1,700,000 men. The absence of systematic records of the Confederate forces, the loss or destruction of official papers, during the evacuation of Richmond, and during the chaos of the reconstruction period, has left no definite summary nor figures by which the total enrollment of the armies and detached forces of the Confederacy can be accurately estimated. In 1869, soon after the Civil War, and during the era of prejudice that naturally succeeded. Dr. Joseph Jones, an ex-Confederate surgeon. Secretary of the Southern Historical Society at New Oreleans, prepared a paper upon the "Confederate Losses During the War." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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