William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 13: aggregate of deaths in the Union Armies by States--total enlistment by States--percentages of military population furnished, and percentages of loss — strength of the Army at various dates casualties in the Navy., page 526

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Table A. Total deaths and percentages by States.

States.	Killed or mortally wounded.	Deaths from all other causes.	total deaths.	Troops furnished; three years standard.¹	Per cent. of killed.	Per cent. of other deaths.	Per cent. of total deaths.
	I.	II.	III.	IV.	V.	VI.	VII.
Maine	3,184	6,214	9,398	49,635	6.4	12.5	18.9
New Hampshire	1,903	2,979	4,882	29,150	6.5	10.2	16.7
Vermont	1,809	3,415	5,224	26,355	6.8	12.9	19.8
Massachusetts	6,115	7,827	13,942	98,803	6.2	7.9	14.1
Rhode Island	460	861	1,321	13,688	3.3	6.3	9.6
Connecticut	1,947	3,407	5,354	45,181	4.3	7.5	11.8
New York	19,085	27,449	46,534	334,784	5.7	8.1	13.8
New Jersey	2,578	3,176	5,754	44,398	5.8	7.1	12.9
Pennsylvania	15,265	17,918	33,183	214,427	7.1	8.3	15.4
Delaware	383	499	882	7,888	4.8	6.3	11.1
Maryland	909	2,073	2,982	24,954	3.6	8.3	11.9
West Virginia	1,247	2,770	4,017	27,518	4.5	10.0	14.5
Ohio	11,588	23,887	35,475	225,669	5.1	10.6	15.7
Kentucky	2,478	8,296	10,774	43,550	5.7	19.0	24.7
Indiana	7,243	19,429	26,672	150,177	4.8	12.9	17.7
Illinois	9,894	24,940	34,834	210,043	4.7	11.8	16.5
Missouri	3,317	10,568	13,885	78,035	4.2	13.5	17.7
Michigan	4,448	10,305	14,753	76,218	5.8	13.5	19.3
Wisconsin	3,802	8,499	12,301	73,865	5.1	11.5	16.6
Minnesota	626	1,958	2,584	18,554	3.4	10.5	13.9
Iowa	3,540	9,461	13,001	68,118	5.2	13.8	19.0
Kansas	737	1,893	2,630	16,624	4.4	11.4	15.8
District of Columbia	41	249	290	6,546	0.6	3.8	4.4
Colorado	153	170	323	3,697	4.1	4.6	8.7
California	108	465	573	15,725	0.7	2.9	3.6
New Mexico	73	204	277	4,432	1.6	4.6	6.2
Nebraska	35	204	239	2,175	1.6	9.3	10.9
Oregon	11	34	45	1,773	0.6	1.9	2.5
Nevada	2	31	33	1,080	0.1	2.9	3.0
Dakota	2	4	6	206	1.0	2.0	3.0
Washington Territory		22	22	964		2.2	2.2
Tennessee	744	6,033	6,777	26,394	2.8	22.8	25.6
Arkansas	305	1,408	1,713	7,836	3.9	17.9	21.8
Louisiana	214	731	945	4,654	4.6	15.7	20.3
Alabama	50	295	345	1,611	3.1	18.3	21.4
North Carolina	43	317	360	3,156	1.4	10.0	11.4
Florida	18	197	215	1,290	1.4	15.2	16.6
Texas	12	129	141	1,632	0.7	7.9	8.6
Mississippi	3	75	78	545	0.5	13.8	14.3
Virginia	10	32	42
Georgia		15	15
Indian Nations	107	911	1,018	3,530	3.0	25.8	28.8
Colored Troops	2,894	33,953	36,847²	178,975	1.6	18.9	20.5
Veteran Reserves³	27	1,645	1,672			2.7	2.7
Hancock's Corps⁴	1	105	106			0.9	0.9
United States Sharpshooters⁵	263	289⁶	552		10.2	11.2	21.4
United States Volunteer Infantry⁷	12	231	243		0.1	2.7	2.8
Generals and Staff	85	154	239
Miscellaneous, Bands, &c.	16	216	232
Regular Army⁸	2,283	3,515	5,798		3.4	5.2	8.6
Totals	110,070	249,458	359,528	2,143,855	5.1	11.6	16.7

The report of the Provost-Marshal-General shows the combined strength of the Union Armies, at different periods before and during the war, to have been:

Date.	Present.	Absent.	Aggregate.
Jan. 1, 1861	14,663	1,704	⁹16,367
July 1, 1861	183,588	3,163	186,751
Jan. 1, 1862	527,204	48,713	575,917
Mch. 31, 1862	533,984	103,142	637,126
Jan. 1, 1863	698,802	219,389	918,191
Jan. 1, 1864	611,250	249,487	860,737
Mch. 31, 1865	657,747	322,339	980,086
May 1, 1865	797,807	202,709	1,000,516

It would be impossible to state the number of individuals who served in the war, as so many of the men, after serving a short term, enlisted for a second, and often for a third, time. Then, again, nearly all of the three years regiments that volunteered in 1861 reenlisted in January, 1864, for another three years term of service. There were 136,000 of these veterans who reenlisted and were counted twice in the number of troops (2,036,700) reported as

1 Number left after deducting sailors, colored troops, and commutations, the deaths credited here to each State having occurred wholly in the white troops. The loss in the colored troops is itemized here by itself. For the number of colored soldiers furnished by each State, see Table “D.”

2 Not including loss in the three Massachusetts colored regiments, which were organized and officered exclusively by that State; their enrollment and loss is included with that of the white troops from Massachusetts.

3 The number of men in the Regular Army was about 67,000; in the Veteran Reserve Corps, 60,508; Hancock's Veteran Corps, 10,833; United States Sharpshooters (Berdan's two regiments), 2,570; other organizations of white volunteers, about 8,500. All these (except about 20,000 Regulars who were in service at the outbreak of the war) are included in the number of men furnished by the various States, but the exact share furnished by each State is not known. For this reason, the actual percentage of loss by each State is somewhat larger than the apparent one.

4 The number of men in the Regular Army was about 67,000; in the Veteran Reserve Corps, 60,508; Hancock's Veteran Corps, 10,833; United States Sharpshooters (Berdan's two regiments), 2,570; other organizations of white volunteers, about 8,500. All these (except about 20,000 Regulars who were in service at the outbreak of the war) are included in the number of men furnished by the various States, but the exact share furnished by each State is not known. For this reason, the actual percentage of loss by each State is somewhat larger than the apparent one.

5 The number of men in the Regular Army was about 67,000; in the Veteran Reserve Corps, 60,508; Hancock's Veteran Corps, 10,833; United States Sharpshooters (Berdan's two regiments), 2,570; other organizations of white volunteers, about 8,500. All these (except about 20,000 Regulars who were in service at the outbreak of the war) are included in the number of men furnished by the various States, but the exact share furnished by each State is not known. For this reason, the actual percentage of loss by each State is somewhat larger than the apparent one.

6 Includes 35 deaths in the Engineer Battalion.

7 The number of men in the Regular Army was about 67,000; in the Veteran Reserve Corps, 60,508; Hancock's Veteran Corps, 10,833; United States Sharpshooters (Berdan's two regiments), 2,570; other organizations of white volunteers, about 8,500. All these (except about 20,000 Regulars who were in service at the outbreak of the war) are included in the number of men furnished by the various States, but the exact share furnished by each State is not known. For this reason, the actual percentage of loss by each State is somewhat larger than the apparent one.

8 The number of men in the Regular Army was about 67,000; in the Veteran Reserve Corps, 60,508; Hancock's Veteran Corps, 10,833; United States Sharpshooters (Berdan's two regiments), 2,570; other organizations of white volunteers, about 8,500. All these (except about 20,000 Regulars who were in service at the outbreak of the war) are included in the number of men furnished by the various States, but the exact share furnished by each State is not known. For this reason, the actual percentage of loss by each State is somewhat larger than the apparent one.

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