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The largest muster-roll of the Southern Confederacy (See ''Battles and Leaders'*' Vol. IV, page 768) was on January I, 1864, and was 472,781. Deducting 455,414, troops furnished by the Southern States to the Federal army, from 472,781 on the Confederate roll January i, 1864, it would be as follows:

Troops on Confederate muster-roll January i, 1864 472,781

Troops furnished by Southern States to Federal army. ...... 455,414

17,367

In other words, the Southern States contributed to the Federal army within 17,367 as many soldiers as the Confederacy had on its rolls January i, 1864.

Efforts have been made to get the number of foreigners enlisted in the Federal army, outside of those who were previously natural- ized, but no accurate statistics have been found on that subject. It may safely be estimated at 144,586.

General Wright, agent for the United States Government for the collection of Confederate statistics, gives 600,000 as the greatest number of soldiers enlisted in the Confederate service.

Tabulated, it would be as follows:

Total Confederates enlisted 600,000

Federals from Southern States 276,439

Negroes 178,975

Foreigners (estimated) 144,586

600,000

Above we have given the "estimated" number of foreigners enlisted as soldiers in the Federal army. Later statistics show the nationality of all foreigners who fought for the Union as follows: Germans, 176,800; Irish, 144,200; British Americans, 53,500; Eng- lish, 45,500; other foreigners, 74,900; total, 494,900. It will be seen that our estimate of 144,586 was really far below the actual facts.

Thus it will be seen that the Federals had an army fully as large or larger than the entire Confederate enlistments without drawing a man from the Northern or non-slaveholding States.

The Federal army in its report for May i, 1865, had present for duty 1,000,516, while it had "present equipped" 602,598.