ARMY, UNITED STATES. 



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The several army corps, were, on Jan. 1st, 

 1865, commanded as follows : 



*ist. Maj.-Gen. W. S. Hancock. 



J-L Maj.-Gen. A. A. Humphreys. 



3d. Discontinued. 



4th. Maj.-Gen. D. S. Stanley. 



5th. Maj.-Gen. G. K. "Warren. 



6th. Maj.-Gen. H. G. Wright. 



7th. Maj.-Gen. J. J. Reynolds. 



Sth. Maj.-Gen. Lewis Wallace. 



9th. Maj.-Gen. John G. Parke. 

 10th. Discontinued. 

 llth. do. 



12th. do. 



13th. Maj.-Gen. Gordon Granger. 

 14th. Brig.-Gen. Jefferson 0. Davis. 

 15th. Maj.-Gen. John A. Logan. 

 16th. Maj.-Gen. Andrew J. Smith. 

 17th. Maj.-Gen. Frank P. Blair. 

 iMh. Discontinued. 

 19th. Bris.-Gen. W. H. Emory. 

 20th. Brig.-Gen. A. S. Williams. 

 21st. Discontinued. 

 2'2d. do. 



23d. Maj.-Gen. John iL Sehoneld. 

 24th. Maj.-Gen. E. O. C. Ord. 

 25th. Maj.-Gen. Godfrey WeitzeL 



The casualties in the volunteer service during 

 the year were, major-generals three, viz., John 

 Sedgwick, James B. McPherson, and Daniel D. 

 Birney ; and brigadier-generals seventeen, viz., 

 Stephen C. Champlin, 1 Alexander Hays, James 

 S. Wadsworth, Thomas G. Stevenson, James 



C. Pace, J. St. 0. Morton, C. G. Harker, Samuel 

 A. Rice, Daniel McCook, Lucien Greathouse, 

 G. A. Stedman, Daniel P. Woodbury, J. A. How- 

 ell, David A. Russell, Hiram Burnham, Daniel 



D. Bidwell, and T. E. G. Ransom ; total, 20. 

 By a return made to the United States Sen- 

 ate by the Secretary of War, it appears that on 

 Jan. 1st, 1865, there were sixty-six major-gene- 

 rals of volunteers, and two hundred and sixty- 

 seven brigadier-generals of volunteers in the 

 service, of whom forty-five major-generals and 

 two hundred brigadiers held active commands. 

 Of the remainder two were before the Com- 

 mittee on the Conduct of the "VTar; twenty 

 were awaiting orders; two were employed 

 as commissioners for exchange of prisoners; 

 twenty-seven were members of courts-martial, 

 military commissions, etc.; fifteen were off 

 duty on account of sickness or wounds ; four- 

 teen were employed on special duty ; three were 

 absent on furlough; three were under trial; 

 and two were prisoners of war, one of them, 

 Gen. Hayes, having been released on parole at 

 Richmond, to superintend the distribution of 

 supplies sent to Federal soldiers in rebel prisons. 



Under the head of " Enrolment and Draft " 

 the process for obtaining men to serve in the 

 national armies, adopted by the act of Congress 

 of March 3d, 1863, was described in the 3d 

 volume of this work. During 1864 two acts, 

 amendatory of this act or making further pro- 

 visions on the subject, that of February 24th, 

 and that of July 4th, were passed by the 38th 

 Congress. By section 2 of the former act, which 

 authorizes the President, at his discretion, to call 

 for men for military service, it was provided, 



That the quota of each ward of a city, town, town- 

 ship, precinct, or election district, or of a county 



* Eeorganizing and not in active service. 



where the county is not divided into wards, towns, 

 townships, precincts, or election districts, shall be as 

 nearly as possible in proportion to the number of 

 men resident therein liable to render military ser- 

 vice, taking into account, as far as practicable, the 

 number which has been previously furnished there- 

 from; and in ascertaining and filling said quota 

 there shall be taken into account the number of men 

 who have heretofore entered the naval service of the 

 United States, and whose names are borne upon the 

 enrolment lists as already returned to the office of 

 the Provost Marshal General of the United States. 



When a quota is not filled within the time 

 designated by the President a draft is to be 

 made, and should this prove unsuccessful, far- 

 ther drafts are to be ordered, until the quota 

 of each district is filled. Enrolled and drafted 

 men are authorized to furnish acceptable substi- 

 tutes " who are not liable to draft and are not 

 in the military or naval service ; " and the 

 principals are exempted from military service 

 during the time for which such substitutes are 

 accepted. Persons in the military or naval 

 service, however, who have served a year and 

 have less than six months more to serve, are 

 available as substitutes "in the troops of the 

 State in which they enlisted." The money 

 commutation clause of the act of 1863 is de- 

 clared to exempt a drafted person only from 

 draft on a single quota, and for no longer 

 period than a year. The boards of enrolment 

 are directed to enrol all persons liable to draft 

 and accidentally omitted, also 



All persons who shall arrive at the age of twenty 

 years before the draft ; all aliens who shall declare 

 their intention to become citizens ; all persons dis- 

 charged from the military or naval service of the 

 United States who have not been in such servics 

 two vears during the present war ; and all persona 

 who have been exempted under the provisions of the 

 2d section of the act to which this is an amend- 

 ment, but who are not exempted by the provisions 

 of this act. The names of all persons who, between 

 the time of the enrolment and the draft, shall have 

 reached the age of forty-five, are to be stricken from 

 the enrolment. 



Sailors in the merchant service drafted into 

 the military service are allowed, under certain 

 conditions, to enlist in the navy. Persons ex- 

 empted from enrolment or draft must be such 

 as are rejected as physically or mentally unfit 

 for the service, those already in the service, 

 and those who have served two years during the 

 present war and been honorably discharged. 

 Those sections of the act of 1863 providing 

 for the enrolment of two classes of persons 

 are repealed. The act further provides that 

 members of religious denominations conscien- 

 tiously opposed to the bearing of arms, or pro- 

 hibited from so doing by their rules and ar- 

 ticles of faith, shall he considered, if drafted, 

 non-contestants, and he assigned to duty in 

 hospitals, etc., or be exempted by the payment 

 of 800. The following section (24) relates to 

 the enrolment of colored persons : 



All able-bodied male colored persons, between the 

 ages of twenty and forty-five years, resident in the 

 United States," shall be enrolled according to the pro- 

 visions of this act, and of the act to which this is an 

 amendment, and form part of the national forces ; 



