efore, I will, with your permission, Mr. Chairman, narrate an incident which fell under my own observation, one like so many which are familiar to us all, and illustrative, as I think, of the tone and temper of the brave hearts that beat beneath the ragged jackets of gray — gray only for a time, and then stained with every hue from cloud and storm, from rain and sunshine, from the dust of the march and from the patriot blood that flowed through diminished veins from honorable wounds.
In May, 1862, just after the battle of McDowell, the army of the immortal Jackson lay near Harrisonburg in the Valley of Virginia, while the magnificently equipped army of the enemy, commanded by General Banks, was entrenched at Strasburg, meditating a further advance, while harassing and humiliating the noble people of the Valley in their rear.
In order to dislodge him, or, if possible, to get in his rear at Middletown, by way of the Page Valley, and destroy him, Jackson ordered his army to cook thre
h State and Territory and the District of Columbia, from April 15, 1861, to the close of the war. From this statement we learn that under the call of April 15, 1861, for 75,000 three months militia, the States furnished 91,816.
Under the call of May 3, 1861, (confirmed by act approved August 6, 1861), and under acts of July 22 and 25, 1861, for 500,000 three years men, 700,680 men were actually furnished, of whom, however, only 657,868 were three years men; while 15,007 men were furnished in May and June, 1862, by special authority, for three months. Under the call of July, 2, 1862, for 300,000 men for three years, 421,465 were furnished.
Under the call of August 4, 1862, for 300,000 militia for nine months, only 87,588 were furnished.
Under the President's proclamation of June 15, 1863, for militia of six months, 16,361 men were furnished.
Under the call of October 17, 1863, (which embraces men raised by draft of 1863), and that of February 1, 1864, for 500,000 men for three year
days, April to July, 1864 83,612
Call of July 18, 1864, for 500,000 men 385,163
Reduced by excess on previous calls.
Call of December 19, 1864, for 300,000 men 211,752
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Total men furnished in eighteen months 1,257,134
The number of men furnished on call of the United States government, previous to October 17, 1863, was as follows:
Men furnished
Call of April 15, 1861, for 75,000 men for three months 91,816
Call of May 3, 1861, for 500,000 men 700,680
Men furnished in May and June, 1862, for three months 15,007
Call of July 2, 1862, for 300,000 men for three years 421,465
Call of August 4, 1862, for 300,000 militia for nine months 87,588
Proclamation of June 15, 1863, for militia for six months 16,361
Volunteers and militia at various times, of sixty days to one year 13,760
Volunteers and militia at various times for three years 75,156
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Total 1,421,833
The number of men furnished to the armies of the United States by the states of Kentuc
h, 46.
Extract from his biography concerning battle of Shiloh, 50.
Death, 53-54. General Joseph E., 66, 68, 69, 70, 82, 83, 108, 109, 131, 132, 133, 134, 170, 337-38, 339-40, 342, 345, 346, 351, 353, 354, 355,418, 460, 461, 466, 472, 526, 538-39, 540, 549, 551, 568, 575, 589, 590, 591,592,598.
Assumes command of Peninsula army, 72-73.
Conduct concerning evacuation of Norfolk, 74-75.
Position after retreat from lower peninsula, 84.
Retreat across Chickahominy, 85-86.
Strength of army, May 1862, 88.
Tactics in defense of Richmond, 99-102.
Correspondence with Gen. Pemberton, 340-41.
Considerations for Tennessee urged by Davis, 461-62.
Retreat through Georgia to Atlanta, 467-70.
Removal from command, 471-72.
Appointment to command in North Carolina, 536.
Note from Davis for conference in Greensboro, 576.
Conference with Davis, 576-79.
Conferences with Sherman on terms of surrender, 580-84, 587-88.
Statements concerning Davis, 585-86. Colonel William Preston, 46, 589.
Extr
00 days, mustered in between April 23 and July 18, 186483,612
Under call of July 18, 1864, for 500,000 (reduced by excess credits of previous calls) for one year, two years, three years, and four years385,163
Under call of Dec. 19, 1864, for 300,000 men for one year, two years, three years, four years211,752
Other troops furnished by States and Territories which, after first call, had not been called upon for quotas when general call for troops was made182,357
By special authority granted May and June, 1862, New York, Illinois, and Indiana furnished for three months15,007
Total2,772,408
Number of men who paid commutation86,724
Grand total2,859,132
Aggregate reduced to a three years standard2,320,272
actual strength of the army between Jan. 1, 1860, and May 1, 1865.
Date.Regulars.Volunteers.Total.
Jan. 1, 186016,435-----16,435
Jan. 1, 186116,367-----16,367
July 1, 186116,422170,329186,751
Jan. 1, 186222,425553,492575,917
March 31, 186223,308613,818637,126
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