3 Series III Volume IV- Serial 125 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports
Page 3 | UNION AUTHORITIES. |
Received under said call by draft and sent to the field
with regimental organization............................ 66,898
Received and sent to field, singly and by squads, for
old regiments........................................... 4,000
------
Total................................................... 70,898
(This number (70,898) of nine-months" men is equivalent to 17,724 for three years; four nine-months" men being considered equivalent to one three-years".)
(NOTE.- All volunteers received after July 2, 1862, were obtained under call of that date for 300,000 volunteers.)
The levies raised under the call were mustered into the U. S. service from the following enumerated States, as per the dates set opposite the States, respectively:
Maine............ Oct.14, 1862 New York........... Jan.22, 1863
New Hampshire.... Oct.23, 1862 New Jersey......... Sept.11, 1862
Vermont.......... Oct.23, 1862 Pennsylvania....... Jan.8, 1863
Massachusetts.... Nov.19, 1862 Wisconsin.......... December 30, 1862
Rhode Island..... Oct.13, 1862 Kentucky........... May 28, 1863
Connecticut... .. Nov.18, 1862
The foregoing States sent their drafted men to the field with regimental organizations. Ohio, Wisconsin, and one or two other States sent the approximate number (4,000) to old regiments in the field, singly and by squads. The muster in of his number was complete by January 30, 1863. The remaining States furnished no drafted men under the call in question. Troops furnished by them were supplied under the calls of 1861 and 1862 for volunteers.
II. Since June 30, 1863, the date on which orders to the respective States for the present draft commenced to be issued, 86,056 volunteers have been mustered into the U. S.service. This number will be increased when full returns are received. From January 1, 1863, to June 30 - a like period previous to ordering the draft -31,399 volunteers were mustered in. The increase is, therefore, 54,657.
States. From January 1 From June 30 Difference.
to June 30, to December
1863. 31, 1863.
Connecticut 228 1,490 +1,262
Illinois 2,395 1,620 - 775
Indiana 1,043 10,125 +9,082
Iowa 2,089 4,894 +2,085
Kansas 345 1,473 +1,128
Kentucky 1,706 1,459 - 257
Maine 279 2,851 +2,572
Maryland 443 1,572 +1,129
Massachusetts 3,902 4,382 + 480
Michigan 4,606 4,780 + 174
Minnesota 55 745 + 690
Missouri 3,352 8,328 +4,976
New York 5,569 13,224 +7,655
New Jersey 131 6,046 +5,915
New Hampshire 95 2,246 +2,151
Ohio 2,213 9,638 +7,425
Pennsylvania 1,587 3,829 +2,242
Rhode Island 556 1,881 +1,325
Vermont 66 2,113 +2,047
West Virginia 439 1,214 + 775
Wisconsin 240 1,876 +1,636
Delaware 60 270 + 210
Total 31,399 86,056 +54,657
THOMAS M. VINCENT,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
WAR DEPT., ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, January 2, 1864.
Page 3 | UNION AUTHORITIES. |