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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 28 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
s, gives 600,000 as the greatest number of soldiers enlisted in the Confederate service. Tabulated, it would be as follows: Total Confederates enlisted600,000 Federals from Southern States276,439 Negroes178,975 Foreigners (estimated)144,586 ———600,000 Above we have given the estimated number of foreigners enlisted as soldiers in the Federal army. Later statistics show the nationality of all foreigners who fought for the Union as follows: Germans, 176,800; Irish, 144,200; British Americans, 53,500; English, 45,500; other foreigners, 74,900; total, 494,900. It will be seen that our estimate of 144,586 was really far below the actual facts. Thus it will be seen that the Federals had an army fully as large or larger than the entire Confederate enlistments without drawing a man from the Northern or non-slaveholding States. The Federal army in its report for May 1, 1865, had present for duty 1,000,516, while it had present equipped 602,598. The Confederates on Apri<