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APPENDIX. 143
To show the immense strength of the Federal army, the following extracts are taken from the report of the Federal Secretary of War, Stanton, which was sent to the Congress at its session beginning on the first Monday in December, 1865. In that report he says : —
"Official reports show that on the 1st of May, 18G4, the aggregate national military force of all arms, officers and men, was nine hundred and seventy thousand seven hundred and ten, to wit :—
Available force present for duty 662 345
On detached service in the different military departments. 109,348
In field hospitals or unfit for duty 41 266
In general hospitals or on sick leave at home 75,978
Absent on furlough or as prisoners of war 66 290
Absent without leave 15 433
Grand aggregate 970,710
"The aggregate available force present for duty May 1st, 1864, was distributed in the different commands as follows :—
Department of Washington 42 124
Army of the Potomac 120 386
Department of Virginia and North Carolina 59,139
Department of the South 18 \q^
Department of the Gulf 61866
Department of Arkansas 23 6f)6 /
Department of the Tennessee 74,174
Department of the Missouri 15 770
Department of the North- West 5 295
Department of Kansas 4 793
Head-quarters Military Division of the Mississippi 476
Department of the Cumberland 119 943
Department of the Ohio 35 416
Northern Department 9 540
Department of West Virginia 30,782
Department of the East 2 828
Department of the Susquehanna 2 970
Middle Department 5 627
Ninth Army Corps 20, 780
Department of New Mexico 3 454
Deprrtment of the Pacific 5,141
Total 662,345."
And again : —
"Official reports show that on the 1st of March, 1865, the aggre- gate military force of all arms, officers and men, was nine hundred and sixty-five thousand five hundred and ninety-one, to wit : —
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