General Lee's surrender at Appomattox embraced 28,356 men, of whom only 8000 had arms, the residue being largely made up of broken down, barefoot and sick men, teamsters and attaches of the medical, ordnance, quartermaster, and commissary departments.

It may be of interest to the reader to know the number of men enrolled in the Union and the Confederate armies during the war, and the losses in killed, wounded, and prisoners held by each.

Official compilation shows that there wereenrolled of white troops in the Union army2,494,592
Negro troops 178,975
Total2,673,567
Of this number the white troops from theSouthern and border states278,923
Negro troops140,298
419,221
The enrollment of Confederate troops,estimated700,000
This may not be entirely correct, but isbelieved to be substantially so.
The Union losses in killed, died fromwounds, disease, and from other causes360,212
Of which the killed in action were67,058
Died of wounds received in action43,012
Died of disease224,586
Deaths from other causes, orfrom causes unknown 25,556
Total360,212
The Confederate losses, as far as can beascertained, though not believed to be entirely correct, were asfollows:
Killed in action52,954
Died of wounds21,570
Died of disease 59,297
Total133,821
The number of Confederate prisonerstaken and held by the Federal governmentduring the war was220,000
Number that died in Northern prisons(12 per cent of the total)26,000
Number of Union prisoners held by Confederates270,000
Number that died in Southern prisons(less than 9 per cent)22,000
Confederate soldiers paroled, 1865174,223
Number of battles and skirmishes fought during the war, over two thousand.

NOTE—The most of the above statistics were obtained from "Confederate Military History," edited by General Clement A. Evans, and from "The Century Book of Facts," by Ruoff.

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.

Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.