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185 Series III Volume II- Serial 123 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports

Page 185 UNION AUTHORITIES.

Consolidated abstract from return of the U. S.army on or about June 30, 1862.

Present for duty.

Command. Officers. Men.

Department of the Gulf (Butler) 430 11,297

Department of Kansas (Blunt) 403 8,509

Middle Department (Wood) 704 14,507

Department of the Mississippi 8,290 174,573

(Halleck)

Department of New Mexico (Canby) 99 2,270

Department of New York (Morgan) 18 677

Department of North Carolina 580 13,791

(Burnside)

Department of the Pacific (Wright) 258 4,808

Department (or Army) of the 4,436 93,822

Potomac* (McClellan)

Department of the South (Hunter) 756 17,958

Army of Virginia (Pope) 3,119 64,495

Defenses of Washington (Wadsworth) 187 3,681

State of Maine++ 6 104

State of Massachusetts++ 22 339

State of Michigan++ 3 83

State of New Hampshire++ 3 51

State of Ohio++ 54 1,407

State of Vermont++ 36 833

Total 19,404 413,205

Command. Aggregate Aggregate Date of

present. present and return.

absent.

Department of the 14,772 16,451 June 30,

Gulf (Butler) 1862

Department of Kansas 9,790 10,770 June 20,

(Blunt) 1862

Middle Department 16,296 17,409 June 30,

(Wood) 1862

Department of the 215,094 272,807 June 30,

Mississippi (Halleck) 1862

Department of New 2,285 3,525 June 30,

Mexico (Canby) 1862

Department of New 812 1,005 June 30,

York (Morgan) 1862

Department of North 15,782 19,334 June 30,

Carolina (Burnside) 1862

Department of the 6,176 7,098 June 30,

Pacific (Wright) 1862

Department (or Army) 113,895 184,705 June 30,

of the Potomac* 1862

(McClellan)

Department of the 21,630 24,798 June 30,

South (Hunter) 1862

Army of Virginia 77,087 94,120 June 30,

(Pope) 1862

Defenses of 4,538 4,858 June 30,

Washington 1862

(Wadsworth)

State of Maine++ 122 125 June 30,

1862

State of 385 396 June 30,

Massachusetts++ 1862

State of Michigan++ 96 97 June 30,

1862

State of New 55 55 June 30,

Hampshire++ 1862

State of Ohio++ 1,549 1,794 June 30,

1862

State of Vermont++ 869 887 June 30,

1862

Total 501,663 624,234

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, in and by the second section of an act of Congress passed on the seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act for the collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts within the United States, and for other purposes," it is made the duty of the President to declare, on or before the first day of July then next following, by his proclamation in what States and parts of States insurrection exists:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the State of Virginia - except the following counties: Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Pleasants, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, Randolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette, and Raleigh - are now in insurrection and rebellion, and by reason thereof the civil authority of the United States is obstructed, so that the provisions of the "Act to provide increased revenue from imports to pay the interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved August five, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, cannot be peaceably executed, and that the taxes legally chargeable upon real estate under the act last aforesaid lying within the States and parts of States as aforesaid, together with

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*Including the Department of Virginia (Dix), which had 471 officers and 8,978 men "for duty;" aggregate present, 10,678; aggregate and absent, 11,475.

+Two brigades (Kimball's and Ferry's), included in these figures, were, June 30, with a "total present" of 5,225, and an "aggregate and absent" of 6,591, en route to the Army of the Potomac.

++Not embraced in any military department.

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