| 1864: | Present and absent | 98,246 |
| Present for duty | 62,925 |
On reaching Petersburg, July 10, 1864:
| Present and absent | 135,805 |
| Present for duty | 68,844 |
As to exemptions it was customary to exempt farmers who engaged to raise a certain amount of corn.
Again the practice was extensively pursued of granting furloughs for recruiting service. Such men continued to be borne on the rolls of their commands in the field.
[11] Aggregate available military population 792,000, of which 350,000 in the army January, 1862. Above figure is 2-1/2 per cent. of remainder, viz. 442,000.
[12] Col. Livermore's method of computation, if applied to the true available number 760,000, with additions and deductions noted above, yields a very similar result, about 790,000. See his book, p. 23, but note on p. 21 an error of calculation, where instead of 265,000 he should give 246,872.
[13] The ten per cent. addition for extension of military age is too high an estimate in this and the following tables, when we remember that the conscript law lowering the age to seventeen and raising it to fifty did not go into operation until February 17, 1864, by which time the territory of the Confederacy was greatly contracted.
War Department,
Washington, May 18, 1912.