The following from the Adjutant General's reports shows the aggregate number of troops enlisted and mustered up to December 23, 1862: "Total, including recruits, sent to the field before July 1st, 1862, 24,281; 'Lancers' and 'Hughes's Horse Guards,' regularly mustered into the service, but disbanded without leaving the State, 987; three regiments of cavalry, ten of infantry, and one battery, sent since July 1st, 13,739; recruits (including six for nine months) received from July 1st to December 23d, 2,162; estimated strength of three regiments of cavalry, two of infantry, one of sharpshooters, and two batteries, organized in the State, 4,400. Total, 45,569. "This does not include volunteers from this State who have gone into the regiments of other States, to a number known to exceed 1,400.