Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Fortress Monroe” in chapter 6, page 128 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 II.:
...he Secretary of War, he so modified this demand as to evince a willingness to begin offensive operations with a total effective force on the Potomac and in Maryland--but not including the garrison of Fortress Monroe --of 208,000 men and 488 guns; but to secure this, he calculated, would require an aggregate of 240,000 men on his muster-rolls, including the sick and absent, while he had but 168,318, with 228 field...
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| † | Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) | 7,630 | 124 | 276 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
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