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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 836 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 690 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 532 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 480 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 406 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 350 0 Browse Search
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 332 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 322 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 310 0 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 294 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the census of 1860, with an estimate of losses and diminution of resources sufficiently large to cover all decrease in the supply of arms-bearing men.--For example: The white male population of all the Confederacy, leaving out Kentucky and Missouri, was, in 1860, a fraction less than 2,800,000. Of this male population, a fraction less than 1,300,000 were between the ages of seventeen and fifty. The persons who have arrived at the age of seventeen since 1860 are computed at a fraction abotion deprives us of 340,000 men (in round numbers) between the ages of seventeen and fifty. These are to be deducted, and they leave 1,090,000--say, in round numbers, 1,100,000. If these are under estimates, they may be supplied by troops from Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland, and refugees from those portions of the other States under Yankee domination. A farther deduction must be made for the casualties that have resulted either in death or disability. This is done by estimating the loss