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t date were as follows:
At Manassas, Centerville, Bull Run, Upper Occoquan, and vicinity80,000men.
At Brooks's Station, Dumfries, Lower Occoquan, and vicinity18,000men.
At Leesburg and vicinity4,500men.
In the Shenandoah Valley13,000men.
Total number115,500men. On the other hand, those who were eager for a direct and decisive blow, insisted, from first to last, that the Rebel army at no time exceeded 60,000 in number, and was oftener below 50,000.
The writer visited, early in January, Gen. Wadsworth, in his camp near Ball's Cross-Roads; when, on this point, Gen. W. said: I see and examine all deserters and contrabands who reach us from the Rebel camps in our front; and their testimony convinces me that they have but fifty or sixty regiments in all-certainly not over 50,000 men.
This, of course, did not include outlying detachments, whether at and toward Winchester or below the Occoquan.
Most Rebel writers who touch this point, and British officers who served with or
e 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 guns, present, and 6 more batteries on the way from New York.
Thus his army, which by December 1st had been swelled nearly to 200,000, and for the three months succeeding averaged about 220,000 men,
Dec. 1, 198,213; Jan. 1, 219,707; Feb. 1, 222,196; March 1, 221,987. was at no time large enough, according to his computation, to justify a determined offensive, since he persisted in computing the Rebel army confronting him at no less than 1500,000 strong, well drilled and equipped, ably commanded and strongly intrenched.
Letter to the Secretary of War.
Now, the movement first contemplated, by way of the Rappahannock and Urbana — still more, that ultimately decided on by way of Fortress Monroe and the Peni
