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 F. PERCENTAGE OF MILITARY POPULATION FURNISHED BY STATES. *Table E, Column IV. (official publication ; Ad. Gen. office, Washington, Nov. 9, 1880). percentage ; and, yet, Delaware is entitled to credit for the money, the colored troops, and short-term regiments which she so promptly and liberally furnished. Kentucky is credited in this table with a low percentage, but it should be remembered that this State furnished 23,703 colored troops, which do not enter into tins calculation. Maryland and Missouri also supplied the army with a large contingent for the same arm of the service. The percentages of men supplied, large as they are, fail to do full justice to the States, because the military ages included many who were exempt from service on account of physical defects or infirmities ; and hence the actual proportion of able-bodied men furnished would in each case be correspondingly larger than the one stated. Although the Border States are credited with a lower percentage, their record is a highly meritorious one. While the more Northern States were confronted with the questions of a war, the border States had to deal with the additional and more serious ones arising from a civil war ; a strife in which brother would be arrayed against brother, neighbor against neighbor, and which would be characterized by all the terrible and distracting scenes engendered by such a contest. They were slave-holding States, but they resisted all importu nities to join the Confederacy, and remained loyal to the Union, although they knew full well that such action would transfer the war to their own fields. Missouri knew that by remaining in the Union her counties would be overrun by guerrilla bands and predatory inva sions ; Kentucky sturdily refused all overtures from the Confederacy, although it was plain _16010
