ARMORIES. 



ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 19 



88 ; death, 38 ; education, 38 ; ordination and 

 various charges, 38 ; made Bishop of Wiscon- 

 sin, 38. 



ARMORIES. I. Of the Government in 1861, 

 28, 29. 



ARMS* I. In possession of the Government 

 at the breaking out of the civil war, 28; 

 shipment of, to the Southern States in 1860, 

 123. 



ARMSBY, JAMES H. XV. Decease of, 586. 



ARMSTRONG, Captain JAMES F. XIII. Obit- 

 uary of, 568. 



ARMY, CONFEDERATE. I. Its strength in 

 July, 1861, 163. 



II. "White male population of the Confed- 

 erate States, 12 ; estimate of soldiers between 

 eighteen and thirty-five years of age, 12 ; do. 

 Confederate estimate, 12; volunteers in 1861, 

 13 ; quota, 13 ; another call for troops, 13 ; 

 conscription law, 13 ; number obtained under 

 it, 13 ; list of officers of the Confederate army, 

 13 ; condition of the troops in November, 1862, 

 14 ; appeal of the Governor of North Carolina 

 for clothes and shoes, 15 ; straggling from the 

 army, 16. 



III. Acts of Congress, 16 ; proclamation of 

 Jefferson Davis, 16 ; number estimated from 

 conscription, 17 ; who were residents in Rich- 

 mond and liable to conscription, 17 ; report of 

 the Conscript Bureau, 17; order of General 

 Pemberton relative to paroled prisoners, 17; 

 source of weakness, 17; address of Jefferson 

 Davis to the soldiers, 17; bounties, 18 ; numbers 

 in the army, 18 ; pay of soldiers, 18 ; ages of 

 conscripts, 18 ; debate in Congress on the ex- 

 emption of farmers, 18 ; supplies of the army, 

 18 ; desertion, etc., 18 ; three years' men re- 

 enlist, 19 ; officers who formerly belonged to 

 the army of the United States, 19, 20. 



IV. Acts of the Congress at Richmond rela- 

 tive to the army, 30 ; effects of the act of Jan- 

 uary, 1864, 31 ; furloughs revoked, 31 ; exempts 

 in some States, 31 ; do. for physical disability, 

 31 ; estimate of force in the South at close of 

 1864, 31; number in the field, 32; report of 

 the Secretary of War, 32 ; rations of the sol- 

 diers, 32; Richmond Ambulance Corps, 32; 

 manufactures for materials of war, 32. 



V. Decline of the numbers, 29 ; final sur- 

 render, 29. (See Army Operations.) 



ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. I. Its num- 

 bers, 26 ; increase, 26 ; total force, 26 ; appro- 

 priations for, 27; pay of privates, 27; entire 



strength 1st of December, 27 ; do. of arms of 

 the service, 27 ; stores for, at Washington, 28 ; 

 infantry arms, 28 ; Springfield musket, 28 ; how 

 made, 29 ; Enfield rifles, 29 ; Prussian needle- 

 gun, 29; breech-loading arms, 29; proposals 

 of the Government, 30 ; rifles for sharp-shoot- 

 ers, 30 ; cavalry, 30 ; the carbine, 30 ; Sharp's, 

 Colt's, Savage's, 30 ; loading, 31 ; pistols, 31 ; 

 artillery, 31 ; various kinds of ordnance, 31 ; 

 columbiads, 31 ; Parrott gun, 32 ; Whitworth 

 gun, 32 ; steel cannon, 32 ; Wiard's steel can- 

 non, 32 ; mortars, 33 ; shells, 33 ; founderies, 

 33 ; projectiles, 34 ; Hotchkisa, 35 ; James, 35 ; 

 gunpowder, 35 ; tents, 35 ; the Sanitary Com- 

 mission, 36 ; objects of its appointment, 36 ; 

 volunteers, 36 ; time in recruiting, 37 ; natives 

 and foreign born, 37; age, 37; camp-sites, 37; 

 drainage, 37 ; ventilation of tents, 37 ; flooring 

 of do., 38 ; impurities of camps, 38 ; clothing 

 of the men, 38 ; average sickness, 39 ; do. Brit- 

 ish army, 39 ; mortality, 39 ; diseases of the 

 volunteers, 40 ; treatment, 41. 



II. Policy of the Government, 16 ; regular 

 army, historical sketch of, 16 ; officers of each 

 grade in 1862, 16; militia force, 17; how or- 

 ganized, 17 ; volunteers, 17 ; various calls for, 

 by the President, 18; number actually raised, 

 18 ; monthly pay of non-commissioned officers 

 and privates, 18 ; pay and commissions allowed 

 to officers, 19 ; materials for equipment of such 

 a vast force, how obtained, 20 ; sanitary con- 

 dition, 20 ; mortality, 20 ; proportion sick, 21 ; 

 absentees, 21 ; orders to provost-marshals to 

 arrest them, 21 ; surgical department, 21 ; sub- 

 sistence department, 21 ; ordnance department, 

 issues of, 21 ; list of officers in the regular and 

 volunteer service, 22, 23 ; casualties, 23. 



III. Its numbers, 20 ; rate of depletion, 20 ; 

 the conscription measure, 21 ; call for troops 

 in June, 21 ; do. in October, 21 ; different from 

 previous ones, 21 ; strength of the army in Oc- 

 tober, 1863, 21 ; volunteering, 22 ; folly of re- 

 cruiting by new regiments, 22; order of the 

 War Department relative to bounties, 22 ; fur- 

 lough to veterans, 23 ; means used to promote 

 the efficiency of the army, 23 ; orders to con- 

 solidate regiments, 23 ; difficulties, 24 ; desert- 

 ers, 24; proclamation of pardon to deserters, 

 24; its effects, 24; conscription 'act relative to 

 deserters, 25. 



Colored troops, 25 ; employed at Hilton 

 Head and New Orleans, 25 ; acts of Con- 

 gress relative thereto, 25 ; relative to freed- 



