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defend his lines. This number he contrasts with an effective total, which he ascribes to Grant, of 162,239. But this total of Grant's includes the sick, the extra-duty men, those in arrest, the officers, the cavalry, the artillery, and the troops in Ord's department at Fort Monroe, Norfolk, and other places a hundred miles from Richmond, as well as the cavalry of Sheridan left in the Middle Military Division. The actual facts are as follows: Lee reported present for duty on the 20th of February, 1865, 59,094 men, and 73,349 aggregate, in the army of Northern Virginia alone. Ewell, in command of the Department of Richmond, reported, on the same day, 4,391 effective, and 5,084 aggregate present, making 63,485 effective regular soldiers, and 78,433 aggregate. In addition to the extra-duty men, nearly all of whom the rebels habitually put into battle, there were the local reserves and the crews of the gunboats, who were all at the front in the last engagements, and who took good ca
5110466506961832261,042 Br.-Gen. W. N. Pendleton commanding. Staff11211118881616 1st Corps Artill1311772,0893541816872,3112,398357246993,262 3d Corps Artill2431011,86216831751171152,1222,237451,000623,344 Anderson's Artill231661,1961271141222761,3861,46234966122782,752 Total1621111342445,155213084973452865,8276,1131142,690184399,374 Grand total187356029150772257834035351955,57530050302557179134830473568,61473,349302155,630179726,614160,41157,094 station: Petersburg, Va. date:February 20, 1865. Respectfully submitted. (Signed) W. H. Taylor, Assistant Adjutant-General. Respectfully submitted. The Commanding General is in Richmond. (In W. H. Taylor's writing.) General Sheridan to General Grant. Headquarters, cavalry, Dinwiddie court-House, March 31, 1865. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, commanding Armies United States: General: The enemy attacked me about ten o'clock A. M. to-day on the road coming in from the west of Dinwiddie court-house. This attack was ver