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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
most solid element of the Federal armies, but their number, which at the outset ranged as high as six hundred and forty thousand men, had been greatly reduced by sickness, desertion, and the bullets of the enemy. The regiments that had been raised in response to the call of 1862 were only enlisted for a period of nine or twelve months: their term of service expired in May, 1863. There were two principal calls made in 1862—the first, dated July 2d, for 300,000 three years men, and the second, August 4th, for 300,000 militia for nine months. Under the call of July 2d, 421,465 men were furnished, and under that of August 4th, 87,588 were obtained. It was the latter whose terms of service expired in May, 1863. Besides these, 15,007 men for three months service were, by special authority, furnished in May and June, 1862.—Ed. These two calls for volunteers had nearly exhausted that portion of the population disposed to rally spontaneously under the Federal flag, nor would the seco
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
efore him Baker's Confederate brigade, which had vainly tried to stop him. Anderson's division, sent by Lee, encountered him on the west of Brandy Station. Buford, after a lively skirmish, fell back on the Rappahannock, and crossed it again shortly after. But this demonstration was .sufficient to determine Lee to leave Culpeper—a poor situation for a defensive role, to which he was again reduced, for, although much exposed, it covered neither Chancellorsville nor Fredericksburg. On the 2d of August he brought back his army behind the Rapidan, the cavalry being left on the Rappahannock to watch the Federals. The latter felt but little inclined to attack. The regiments raised for nine months in the preceding year had been mustered out; the growing rate of bounties was retarding the enlistments, many waiting in the hope that the rise would continue. The operations of the conscription, interrupted for a while, had just been resumed. They had not yet given any result; on the contra