[APRIL 16, 1865. - For Smith to Breckinridge, in relation to the refusal of President Davis to give the Governor authority over the Confederate forces who may be in Virginia, see Series I, VOL. LI, Part II, p. 1069.]

consolidated abstract from the latest returns of the Confederate Army, 1865.

[Complied from such returns as are on file in the War Department.]

Command. Officer Men. Aggrega Aggrega Date

s. te te of

present present return

. and .

absent.

Army of Northern 4. 046 55. 73. 160. Feb.

Virginia (Lee) 575 349 411 20,

1865.

Department of 361 3. 4. 10. Feb.

Western Virginia 123 006 064 28,

and East Tennessee 1865.

a (Echols)

Department of 262 4. 5. 9. Mar.

Richmond (Ewell) 013 175 456 20,

1865.

Department of . . . . . . . . . . . .

North Carolina b

(Bragg)

Department of . . . . . . . . . . . .

South Carolina,

Georgia, and

Florida b (Hardee)

Army of Tennessee 1. 577 15. 20. 73. Apr.

c (Johnston) 295 829 260 17,

1865.

Department of 735 9. 12. 28. Mar.

Alabama, 205 040 094 10,

Mississippi, and 1865.

East Louisiana d

(Taylor)

Western district 130 1. 1. 2. Mar.

of North Carolina 433 745 910 10,

(Martin) 1865.

Trans-Mississippi 2. 132 28. 43. 74. Dec.

Department e (E. 107 054 397 31,

K. Smith) 1864.

Total. 9. 243 116. 160. 358.

751 198 692

a Exclusive of the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry, Seventh Confederate Battalions, and Thirteen Virginia Battalion (Reserves), not reported.

b Embodied in the return of the Army of Tennessee for April 17, 1865, except that portion of Hardee's command in Florida under Jones, for which they are no returns in 1865.

c Exclusive of the cavalry, which had, April 7, 1865, an effective total of 5,090; total present, 6,726; aggregate present, 7,183. See also other explanatory notes attached to return printed in Series I, VOL. XLVII, Part III, p. 808.

d There are no returns of any troops in this department for 1865, except the District of the Gulf (Maury), which is here given.

e These figures are taken from latest return on file (December 31, 1864). For an explanation of its deficiencies, see abstract for December, 1864, p. 989.

Proclamation of Governor Brown.

A PROCLAMATION TO THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The magnitude of events that have occurred since your late adjournment and are now transpiring in our public affairs, affecting as they do so seriously the safety, security, and welfare of the people of the State, render it highly proper and expedient that the General Assembly should be in session again at an early day to consider of the existing state of things and to provide the best means which they in their wisdom may be able to devise for meeting the exigencies of the times.

The two most distinguished generals of the Confederacy, commanding the armies upon which we mainly relied for the defense, and maintenance of our cause, having been compelled by overwhelming