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Total number of sailors and marines furnished by the States:—
Connecticut,2,163
Delaware,94
District of Columbia,1,353
Illinois,2,224
Indiana,1,078
Iowa,5
Kentucky,314
Maine,5,030
Maryland,3,925
Massachusetts,19,983
Michigan,498
Minnesota,3
Missouri,151
New Hampshire,882
New Jersey,8,129
New York,35,164
Ohio,3,274
Pennsylvania,14,307
Rhode Island,1,878
Vermont,619
Wisconsin,133
Total,101,207 (Official statement from the Adjutant-General's office, July 15, 1885; Heitman's Historical Register of the U. S. Army, p. 890.) Phisterer, an able statistician, claims, in his New York in the Civil War (p. 43), that the whole number serving in the U. S. Navy during the war was 132,554, of which New York furnished 50,936.
He attempts no list of officers in the volunteer navy.
A body of volunteer naval officers had also to be created, and of these at least 1,757 out of 7,500 were furnished by Massachusetts, and especially for the Atlantic Ocean service