Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Eastern Virginia” in chapter 38, page 627 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.:
...or in numbers to that of the loyal North and West, that the Rebel armies were necessarily and vastly the less numerous likewise.
Gen. McClellan, indeed, appears to have estimated their numbers in Eastern Virginia at 150,000; but the information on which he acted differed
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