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tion act was passed ; there is to be a deduction 

 for those who were not able bodied, or who 

 were exempt from service. This deduction 

 would amount to fifteen per cent. If this de- 

 duction is made on the Confederate estimate of 

 752,34:2. it is 112,851, and leaves the number 

 of able-bodied men 639,491, to which fifty 

 thousand should be added for volunteers 

 under and above the prescribed ages, and also 

 from Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, mak- 

 ing the total 689,491. If the deduction of 

 fifteen per cent, is made from the whole popu- 

 lation of the Confederate States within the pre- 

 scribed ages in 1860, viz., 817,419, it is 122.612, 

 and leaves 694,807, with no additions to be 

 made for volunteers from other States or of 

 other ages. The troops furnished by the States 

 at the close of 1861 with their quotas were near- 

 ly as follows : 



These volunteers were mostly for twelve 

 months. To these troops in the Confederate 

 service should be added the militia force called 

 out in Georgia, and the volunteers from Mary- 

 land, Kentucky, and Missouri, making the en- 

 tire force about 350,000. 



On the 1st of February the President called 

 upon the States for an additional quota of 

 troops: Mis-issippi, 7 regiments ; Alabama. 12; 

 North Carolina, 5 ; Georgia, 12.000 men, &c. 

 The governors resorted to threats of a draft, 

 and the quotas were completed. The original 

 force had been reduced by sickness and the 

 casualties of war to such an extent, that when 

 the Federal armies commenced operations 

 in February and March, 1862, the Confed- 

 erate Government was entirely unprepared to 



resist them. The first disasters showed to the 

 Government and people their real weakness. 

 Soon after the session of Congress commenced 

 under the Permanent Government, President 

 Davis sent in a Message urging the passage of 

 a conscription act. One was passed on the 16th 

 of April, which declared every man, with a few 

 exceptions, between the ages of 18 and 35 

 years, a soldier. (See CONFEDERATE STATES.) 

 Thirty days were allowed in which to volun- 

 teer, after which the law took absolute effect. 

 All contracts with volunteers were annulled, 

 and those over 35 and under 18 years were re- 

 quired to continue in the service 90 days after 

 their term of enlistment expired. Before the 

 ninety days expired an order from the Secre- 

 tary of War extended the time of service. 

 This conscript act thus brought out the full 

 number liable to conscription, 639,491, reduced 

 by the losses of war and sickness, exemptions, 

 and desertions up to midsummer 1862, which 

 reduction was not less than 100,000 men, and 

 probably near 200,000. The weakness of the 

 Confederate armies was however so sensibly 

 felt, that the press publicly declared in the 

 middle of August that the Confederacy had 

 not 300,000 effective men in the field", and 

 Congress, in October, passed a second con- 

 scription act, l>y Which the President was au- 

 thorized to call into the field all men be- 

 tween the ages of 35 and 45 years. The act 

 provided that only such portions of this con- 

 scription should be called out as the President 

 deemed necessary. By the 1st of November 

 the Secretary of War issued an order for the 

 enrolment of all persons, except exempts, be- 

 tween 18 and 45 years of age. This law was 

 declared to be " odious to a large class of the 

 people." A few regiments of Indians have been 

 brought into the field, but they have proved so 

 troublesome that the experiment has not been 

 tried any further. 



The following is an official list of general 

 officers in the service in August, 1862. The 

 major and brigadier generals are said to belong 

 to the Provisional Army, their commissions hav- 

 ing been granted under the Provisional Gov- 

 ernment, or prior to 1862: 



General-in-Chief, 



Robert E. Lee Virginia. 



Adjutant and Inspector-General. 



*Samuel Cooper Virginia. 



Quartermaster-General. 



A. C. Myers Louisiana. 



Larkin Smith (Assistant). 



Chief of Ordnance. 



Benjamin Huger South Carolina. 



Generals Regular Army. 



Samuel Cooper Virginia. 



Joseph E. Jolinston Virginia. 



*Robert E. Lee Virginia. 



*P. G. T. Beauregard Louisiana. 



Braxton Bragg Louisiana. 



Major- General* Provisional Army. 



Leonidas Polk Louisiana. 



Earl Van Dorn Mississippi. 



*Gustavus W. Smith Kentucky 



Theo. N. Holmes North Carolina.' 



* William J. Hardee (iruriria. 



*Benj. Huger (rel'd) South Carolina. 



* James Longstreet Alabama. 



J. B. Magruder Virginia. 



Thomas J. Jackson Virginia 



*Mansfleld Lorell.. .District Columbia. 



E. Kirby Smith (rel'd) Florida. 



William W. Loring North Carolina. 



Sterling Price Missouri. 



John P. McCown Tennessee. 



Daniel H. Hill North Carolina. 



*Richard S. Ewell Virginia. 



John C. Pemberton Virginia. 



Ambrose P. Hill Virginia. 



John C. Breckinridge Kentucky. 



Win. S. Cheatham Tennessee. 



Thomas C. Hindinan Arkansas. 



Richard H. Anderson.. South Carolina. 



James E. B. Stewart Virginia. 



Simon B. Buckner Kentucky 



* James M. Withers Alabama. 



Brigadier- Gen erah. 

 John B. Floyd (rel'd) Virginia. 



Henry A. Wise Virginia. 



August R. La wton Georgia. 



G. J. Pillow (rel'd) Tennessee. 



Daniel S. Donelson Tennessee. 



David R. Jones South Carolina. 



John H. Winder Maryland. 



Ashbel A. Early Virginia. 



Arnold Elzey Maryland. 



Samuel Jones Virginia. 



C. C. Sibley (dead) Louisiana. 



*\Vm. H. C." Whiting Georgia. 



Daniel Ruggles Virginia. 



Charles Clark Mississippi. 



Roswell S. RipU-y South Carolina. 



Isaac R. Trimble Maryland. 



*PauI O. Hebert Louisiana. 



Richard C. Gatlin North Carolina. 



L. Pope Walker Alabama. 



'Albert B. Blanchard Louisiana. 



Gab. J. Rains (killed) Kentucky. 



Lafayette McLaws Georgia. 



Thomas F. Dayton South Carolina. 



Lloyd Tilghma'n Kentucky. 



Nat". G. Evans South Carolina. 



