The Numerical Strength of the Confederate Army / An examination of the argument of the Hon. Charles Francis Adams and others

by Randolph H. McKim

Very truly yours,
Marcus J. Wright.

[15] I have not in this Monograph taken account of an argument sometimes put forward, drawn from the alleged fact that the census of 1890 showed that there were then living 432,020 Confederate and 980,724 United States soldiers (or including sailors and marines 1,034,073). But the Report on Population, 1890, Part II, p. clxxii, states that the figures first quoted are approximate only, and "have not been subjected to careful revision and comparison." No positive conclusion, therefore, can be drawn from them. Their unreliability is shown by the fact that at that very time the War Department estimated that there were then living 1,341,332 Federal soldiers.

[Transcriber's Corrections]

Following is a list of significant typographical errors that have been corrected.

• Page [70], repeated "to" eliminated (alluded to have been).
• Footnote [10], "Fredricksburg" changed to "Fredericksburg" (just before Fredericksburg).