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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 16: (search)
. The effective force transferred to General Hood was about 41,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry. Medical Director A. J. Foard's reports corroborate General Johnston's estimate, giving the killed at 1,358 and wounded 8,614; and according to the same authority, the losses from July 4th to September 1st were: In Hardee's corps, 4,456 killed and wounded; Lee's corps, 4,638 killed and wounded; Stewart's corps, 3,244; Wheeler's cavalry, 185; engineers', 23; total, 12,546. Hood reported, February 15, 1865, that his effective strength September 20th was 27,094 infantry, 10,543 cavalry, 2,766 artillery, and that he had sent 1,600 men to Mobile and Macon; total, 43,503, counting the militia at 1,500. As the effective total turned over to him July 18th was 48,750, he said, this showed a total loss of 5,247 men. But Hardee comments on this: The casualties in my corps alone during that time considerably exceeded 7,000 in killed, wounded and captured. Hood estimated the loss under Johnston,
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17: (search)
ion to Privates P. Murner and A. Vicary, color-bearers of the First and Fifty-fourth Georgia respectively. At the close of 1864 the polls of the State had decreased from 52,764 to 39,863. The State's expenditures for the year had been as high as $13,288,435, and bank capital had decreased nearly one-half. It required $49 of Confederate States paper money to buy $1 gold, and the private soldier continued to receive his $11 a month in paper money. The Georgia legislature convened February 15, 1865, at Macon, and was addressed by Governor Brown in a message in which he severely criticised the Confederate States administration. He urged the calling of a convention of Southern States to consider the crisis and provide a remedy, but the legislature declined to do this, and resolutions were passed sustaining the continuance of the war. One of Governor Brown's recommendations, however, the appointment of a commander-in-chief for the Confederate armies, was justified by the elevation