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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
The number of men credited by enlistment and draft from November
1st, 1864, to the close of the war, as shown by preceding tables, was 9, 382
Making the total credits of the State, from April, 1861, to April, 1865,
the entire period of the war, as shown by the records............. 92, 729
Deducting from this aggregate the number of men commuting...... 1, 982
There is left a total number actually furnished in men, of.......... 90, 747
These figures do not include men enlisted in regiments of other States, and are believed to be substantially correct. There is a discrepancy however between them and the tables of the War Department, as will be seen by the subjoined letter from the Provost Marshal General:
American Civil War
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