...rength of General Lee's army, total effective of all arms, fifty-nine thousand and ninety-three. His losses in March were great at Fort Stedman-nearly three thousand-and desertions were numerous. Colonel Taylor , on March 31st, estimates that Lee had thirtythree thousand muskets to defend a line thirty-five miles in length, or a thousand men to the mile. Lee told the writer he had at that time thirty-five ...