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REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR.

TABLE A.

TOTAL DEATHS AND PERCENTAGES BY STATES.

*Number left after deducting sailors, colored troops, and commutations, the deaths credited here to'each State having occurred wholly in the white troops. The loss in the colored troops is itemized here by itself. For the number of colored soldiers furnished by each State, see Table "D."

The report of the Provost-Marshal-General shows the combined strength of the Union Armies, at different periods before and during the war, to have been :

Date - Present.

Jan. 1, 1861 14,663

July 1, 1861. 183,588

Jan. 1, 1862. 527,204

Mch.31, 1862. 533^984

Jan. 1, 1863. 698,802

Jan. 1, 1864. 611,250

Mch.31,1865. 657,747

May 1, 1865. 797^807

Absent.

1,704

3,163

48,713

103,142

219,389

249,487

322,339

202,709

Aggregate.

*16,367

186,751 575,917 637,126 918,191 860,737 980,086 1,000,516

It would be impossible to state the number of individuals who served in the war, as so many of the men, after serving a short term, enlisted for a second, and often for a third, time. Then, again, nearly all of the three years' regiments that volunteered in 1861 reenlisted m January, 1864, for another three years' term of service. There were 136,000 of these vet-erans who reenlisted and were counted twice in the number of troops (2,036,700) reported as

^Regular Army.

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