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 NUMBER OF ENLISTMENTS. 586 TABLE E.— CONTINUED. NUMBER OF ENLISTMENTS REDUCED TO A THREE YEARS' STANDARD. * Organized under the direct authority of the General Government, and not credited to any State. They were recruited as follows : in Alabama, 4,969; Arkansas. 5,52ii; Colorado, 95; Florida, 1,044; Georgia, 3,486; Louisiana, 24,05:.'; Mississippi, 17,869; North Carolina, 5,035; South Carolina, 5,462; Tennessee, 30,133; Texas, 47; Virginia, 5,723; at large, 5,896; total, 99,337. To forestall discussion on such points, and to arrive accurately at the percentage of its able-bodied whites which each State sent to the war, it becomes necessary to base a percent age on the white troops alone (including sailors), and, further, to reduce their number to the common standard of a three years' enlistment; also, to throw out the item of commutation. Having done this, the following result is obtained : * White troops, States. j yrs' standard. Connecticut_. _ 47,344 Delaware .. 7,982 Illinois . 212.267 Indiana... 151,255 Iowa . 68,123 Kansas . 16,624 Kentucky. 43,864 Maine .. 54,665 Maryland . 28,870 Massachusetts. 114,820^: Michigan . 76,716 \Per cent, of military popula tion, i860. 50.1 43.6 56.6 57.0 48.8 59.4 24.2 44.7 28.1 44.4 46.7 * White troops. States. 3 yrs' standard. Minnesota 18,557 Missouri . 78,186 New Hampshire. 30,032 New Jersey •.. 52,527 New York. 369,948 Ohio. 228,943 Pennsylvania . 228,734 Rhode Island. 15,566 Vermont 26,974 Wisconsin . 73,998 ^Per cent, of military popula tion, 1860. 45.0 33.5 47.2 39.7 46.1 49.8 41.2 43.8 44.5 46.4 By this test some of the States — Delaware, for instance,—are accorded a much lower 'Figures obtained by combining Column IV, Table A, and Column II, Table 1). tFor military population of «-a.-h state, see Column IV, Table F. JXot including the three regiments of colored troops — 3,966 men — which are credited to Massachusetts in Column IV, Table A. _16002
