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

[536] percentage; and, yet, Delaware is entitled to credit for the money, the colored troops, and short-term regiments which she so promptly and liberally furnished. Kentucky is credited in this table with a low percentage, but it should be remembered that this State furnished 23,703 colored troops, which do not enter into this calculation. Maryland and Missouri also supplied the army with a large contingent for the same arm of the service.

Table F. Percentage of military population furnished by States.

States.	Number of Men Furnished.	Number who paid Commutation.	Total.1	Census, 1860. Number between ages 18 to 45 incl.	Per cent. Furnished.
	I.	II.	III.	IV.	V.
Connecticut	55,864	1,515	57,379	94,411	60.7
Delaware	12,284	1,386	13,670	18,273	74.8
Illinois	259,092	55	259,147	375,026	69.1
Indiana	196,363	784	197,147	265,295	74.3
Iowa	76,242	67	76,309	139,316	54.7
Kansas	20,149	2	20,151	27,976	72.0
Kentucky	75,760	3,265	79,025	180,589	43.7
Maine	70,107	2,007	72,114	122,238	58.9
Maryland	46,638	3,678	50,316	102,715	48.9
Massachusetts	146,730	5,318	152,048	258,419	58.8
Michigan	87,364	2,008	89,372	164,007	54.4
Minnesota	24,020	1,032	25,052	41,226	60.7
Missouri	109,111		109,111	232,781	46.8
New Hampshire	33,937	692	34,629	63,610	54.4
New Jersey	76,814	4,196	81,010	132,219	61.2
New York	448,850	18,197	467,047	796,881	58.6
Ohio	313,180	6,479	319,659	459,534	69.5
Pennsylvania	337,936	28,171	366,107	555,172	65.9
Rhode Island	23,236	463	23,699	35,502	66.7
Vermont	33,288	1,974	35,262	60,580	58.2
Wisconsin	91,327	5,097	96,424	159,335	60.5
Aggregate	2,538,292	86,386	2,624,678	4,285,105	61.2
Other States and Territories	240,012	338	240,350
Total	2,778,304	86,724	2,865,028

The percentages of men supplied, large as they are, fail to do full justice to the States, because the military ages included many who were exempt from service on account of physical defects or infirmities; and hence the actual proportion of able-bodied men furnished would in each case be correspondingly larger than the one stated.

Although the Border States are credited with a lower percentage, their record is a highly meritorious one. While the more Northern States were confronted with the questions of a war, the border States had to deal with the additional and more serious ones arising from a civil war; a strife in which brother would be arrayed against brother, neighbor against neighbor, and which would be characterized by all the terrible and distracting scenes engendered by such a contest. They were slave-holding States, but they resisted all importunities to join the Confederacy, and remained loyal to the Union, although they knew full well that such action would transfer the war to their own fields. Missouri knew that by remaining in the Union her counties would be overrun by guerrilla bands and predatory invasions; Kentucky sturdily refused all overtures from the Confederacy, although it was plain