Relative Numbers in Union and Confederate Armies. 47
Other nationalities, Negroes, .
Total, . Total of Southern soldiers,
Southern men in Northern army,
Foreigners, .
Negroes,
Total,
74,900 186,017
680,917 600,000
316,424 494,900 186,017
997,341
ARMIES AT THE WAR'S END.
Aggregate Federal army May i, 1865, Aggregate Confederate army May, 1865, .
No. in Battle.
Seven days' fight,
Antietam,
Chancellorsville,
Fredericksburg,
Gettysburg,
Chickamauga,
Wilderness,
Confederates.
80,835 35,255 57,212 78,110 62,000 44,000 63,987
Federal prisoners in Confederate prisons, Confederate prisoners in Federal prisons, Confederates died in Federal prisons, . Federals died in Confederate prisons, .
1,000,516
133,433
Federals.
H5, 2 49 87,164
131,661
110,000 95,000 65,000
141,160
270,000
220,000 26,436 22,570
These figures were violently assailed in the Northern press, for our friends in that latitude have tried by every means that ingenuity could devise to disprove the claim of these Confederates that they fought against immense odds, but Mr. Lee has come back in a calm, dignified, and perfectly conclusive reply, in which he shows the accuracy of the figures he gave in his original statement.
This reply, which is given below, should be widely published and preserved as a conclusive statement of relative numbers engaged in the great war between the States.
J. WM. JONES.
Richmond, Va., December 27, 1904.
