AEMY, UNITED STATES. 



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The general suspension of hostilities after the 

 middle of April rendered it unnecessary to pro- 

 ceed with the draft, and the remainder of the 

 300,000 men required by this call were never 

 put into the service. > 



The payment of the bounties to recruits au- 

 thorized in the previous year continued during 

 the early part of 1865, until recruiting was 

 stopped. In reply to a communication from 

 the House Committee on military affairs of the 

 Thirty-ninth Congress, asking for information 

 concerning the amount required to equalize the 

 bounties of volunteers during the rebellion, the 

 Secretary of War presented reports from the 

 Provost-Marshal General and the Paymaster 

 General, showing that 1,722,590 enlisted men 

 received bounties as follows : 



1,156,863 at. $100 each $115,686,800 



10,606 at $200 each 2,121,200 



896,709 at $300 each 119,012,700 



153,509 at $400 each 68,402,800 



1,722,590 



$300,223,500 



The number of enlisted men who received no 

 bounties was 738,372. To pay each soldier or 

 his representative enough to bring his bounty 

 up to $400, the largest bounty paid by the Gen- 

 eral Government, would require 684,197,300. 

 To pay each soldier such highest bounty, in 

 proportion to the time of his service, would 

 require $551,392,900. After reverting to these 

 figures the Provost-Marshal General adds : 



I will take the liberty of reminding the Secretary 

 of War that the foregoing inquiries and answers re- 

 late only to the expenditure that would result from 

 an attempt to equalize the bounties of the General 

 Government ; and if this object were attained, even 

 at the enormous cost shown above, it would be but 

 a partial advance toward equalizing all the bounties, 

 Government, State, and local, which have been paid 

 to men for enlisting during the rebellion. The sub- 

 ject of requiring the General Government to assume 

 all the bounties paid is already discussed, and if 

 affirmatively decided, the present attempt to equal- 

 ize Government bounties, if carried out, would es- 

 tablish a precedent for a further equalization of the 

 expense of the Government of all bounties, and this 

 would cost probably thousands of millions, instead 

 of hundreds of millions. I feel justified in saying 

 that in either attempt to equalize, but a small frac- 

 tion of the money will ever reach the soldiers for 

 whom it is intended. 



From returns made by the Provost-Marshal 

 General, it appears that the aggregate quotas 

 charged against the several States under all 

 the calls made by the President from April 15, 

 1861, to April 15, 1865, amounted to 2,759,- 

 049 ; and that the aggregate number of men 

 credited on the several calls and put into the 

 service during the same period was 2,656,553, 

 leaving a deficiency on all calls, when the war 

 closed, of 102,496. which would have been ob- 

 tained in full if recruiting and drafting had not 

 been discontinued. This number does not em- 

 brace the "emergency men" put into the ser- 

 vice at various times during the summer of 

 1863, amounting to upward of 120,000 men, 

 who served periods of two or three weeks. 

 The following tables, furnished to Congress by 

 the Secretary of War, in compliance with a 



resolution of the House of Eepresentatives 

 adopted in December, 1865, give the latest 

 official information with respect to the num- 

 ber of volunteers called for by the President 

 at various periods : 



Number of troops fumfaTwd by States. 



Number of troops furnished, under different calls. 



In estimating the number of men called into 

 the service, it has been the rule of the War 

 Department to take into account only the 

 whole number of men mustered, without re- 

 gard to the fact that the same persons may 

 have been previously discharged, after having 

 been accepted and credited on previous calls. 

 Hence, as volunteers have been accepted for 

 terms varying from three months to three 

 years, many thousands of persons were enlisted 

 under two or more calls. A notable instance 

 of this practice was the reenlistment of nearly 

 150,000 "veteran volunteers" in 1863 and 1864. 

 In order, therefore, to ascertain the number of 

 men entering the service for the first time 

 under the different calls, the number credited 

 should be reduced in the same ratio that the 

 enlistments of the same persons have been 

 repeated. To what extent this reduction must 



