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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)
be encountered in recruiting them, we must, before resuming the recital of their operations, point out what were the military resources and the organization of the forces at the disposal of the government at Washington after two years of war. In the month of November, 1862, the Federal army numbered 775,336 men armed and equipped, and in December the Secretary of War, in his report to Congress, estimated their number at more than 800,000—332,000 of whom, in conformity with the law of July 17, 1862, were enlisted for three years. These forces were divided into more than one thousand regiments. The term of service of a great many volunteers, as we have before stated, expired in the spring of 1863, but the government, being aware that Congress would not refuse it the means to maintain, and even to increase, the effective force of its armies, had prepared its estimates in the anticipation that during the summer there would be one million of men under arms. It was not enough, howe