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 Relative Numbers in Union and Confederate Armies. 47

Other nationalities, Negroes,.

Total,. Total of Southern soldiers,

Southern men in Northern army,

Foreigners,.

Negroes,

Total,

74,900 186,017

680,917 600,000

316,424 494,900 186,017

997,341

ARMIES AT THE WAR'S END.

Aggregate Federal army May i, 1865, Aggregate Confederate army May, 1865,.

No. in Battle.

Seven days' fight,

Antietam,

Chancellorsville,

Fredericksburg,

Gettysburg,

Chickamauga,

Wilderness,

Confederates.

80,835 35,255 57,212 78,110 62,000 44,000 63,987

Federal prisoners in Confederate prisons, Confederate prisoners in Federal prisons, Confederates died in Federal prisons,. Federals died in Confederate prisons,.

1,000,516

133,433

Federals.

H5, 2 49 87,164

131,661

110,000 95,000 65,000

141,160

270,000

220,000 26,436 22,570

These figures were violently assailed in the Northern press, for our friends in that latitude have tried by every means that ingenuity could devise to disprove the claim of these Confederates that they fought against immense odds, but Mr. Lee has come back in a calm, dignified, and perfectly conclusive reply, in which he shows the accuracy of the figures he gave in his original statement.

This reply, which is given below, should be widely published and preserved as a conclusive statement of relative numbers engaged in the great war between the States.

J. WM. JONES.

Richmond, Va., December 27, 1904.