Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. TABLE D. NUMBER OF WHITE TROOPS, SAILORS, COLORED TROOPS, AND INDIANS FURNISHED BY THE STATES. *Includes deaths in the army only; the deaths in the navy— among sailors and marines — are not included in any of these tables. The deaths credited here to each State occurred in the white troops; the total of deaths among the colored soldiers is stated opposite the item "Colored troops." service the average rate was 6 per cent. In the Kansas troops the desertions exceeded 11 per cent, of the enrollment, the percentage being the highest of any State. In addition to the deserters, there were thousands of other absentees. In March, 1863, the returns of the Army of the Potomac showed that 2,922 officers and 81^964 enlisted men were absent, the majority of whom were absent without any known cause ; and in Decem ber, 1862, a return of the Army of the Cumberland showed that with 76,725 present there were 46,677 absent. Desertions were frequent among the drafted men, for their service was compulsory ; but there were not many of this class in the ranks. The Union Army was essentially a volunteer army. True, a conscription act was enforced; but its provisions for exemption were so lenient that the number of drafted men actually held to service was only 52,068, a small num ber as compared with the total enlistment. In addition to the drafted men held to service, there were 75,429 conscripts who sent substitutes. These substitutes have generally been classed as mercenaries ; but they were men who went to the war without compulsion, and if they received money for the act it should be remembered that all the volunteers who enlisted during the latter part of the war received large bounties. Besides the substitutes just mentioned, there were 42,581 men who enlisted as substi tutes for men who, although not drafted, were enrolled under the Conscription Act and were liable to future drafts, but who secured exemption therefrom by sending men to the field in _15943
