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of other bureaux, the best estimates obtainable within 

 a limited time of the forces employed by government in 

 the war of the rebellion, and the reduction which has 

 since been made. I can not do better than to quote in 

 full the statement of Quartermaster General Meigs : 



WAR DEPARTMENT QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE. 



Washington, D. C., January 13, 1879. 



It is estimated that at the close of the rebellion there were in 

 the armies of the United States not less than 1,800,000 enlisted 

 men, 487,000 horses, 305,000 mules, and 130,000 civilians, hired 

 as teamsters, laborers, and servants to officers, etc., to do the 

 civil work of the army in the Quartermaster's Department. 



This is exclusive of all those citizens who were employed 

 upon railroads not under military management, in mills and 

 factories, and workshops, building wagons and cars, and mak- 

 ing cloth and clothing, or gathering crops of grain, hay, and 

 other agricultural products to be consumed by the army. 



Nor does it include the- persons employed by the Engineer 

 Department, the Ordnance Department, or the Commissary 

 "Department. It includes only the enlisted men and officers, 

 their servants, and the civilians hired and paid by the Quarter- 

 master's Department. 



M. C. MEIGS, 



Quartermaster General, 

 Br'tft Major General, U. S. A. 

 MR. W. GODWIN MOODY, 



Boston, Mass. 



At the time of receiving the above statement Gen- 

 eral Meigs said to me that his observation and experi- 

 ence during the war convinced him that at least one 

 fifth of the able bodied men of the North were en- 

 listed or employed in the immediate service of the 

 army, and that another fifth were employed in fur- 

 nishing them with material and subsistence. 



