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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
From returns made by the Provost Marshal General it appears that the aggregate quotas charged against the several States under all the calls made by the President from April 15th, 1861, to April loth, 1865, amounted to 2, 759, 049; and that the aggregate number of men credited on the several calls and put into the service during the same period was 2, 656, 553, leaving a deficiency on all calls, when the war closed, of 102, 496, which would have been obtained in full if recruiting and drafting had not been discontinued. This number does not embrace the 'emergency men' put into the service at various times during the summer of 1863, amounting to upward of 120, 000 men, who served periods of two or three weeks.
American Civil War
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