66 MILITARY APTITUDE UNITED STATES. 



estimate the five years' increase at the same rate as for the first year. The following 

 will be the result : 



Military population of the United States in 18G0 5,624,065 



Deduct — 



Military population of insurgent States 1,064,193 



Military population of Territories, excepting Nevada and Colo- 



. rado . - - - 35,080 



1,099,273 



4,524,792 

 Increase of military population from 1860 to 1865 in loyal States 496,150 



Entire mihtary population from 1861 to 1865. - - 5,020,942 



These figures represent the military resources in men at the disposal of the Gov- 

 ernment during the entire period of the war, and include, of course, all those who 

 were afterward exempted, either for legal causes, (an immense proportion,) or for 

 physical disqualification. From this source, too, proceeded the million and more of 

 volunteers already referred to. If this grand total of men be considered as "the 

 class," in the tei'ms of European recruiting-statistics, but of the whole nation, and for 

 the period of four years from 1861 to 1865, what proportion of it was found fit for 

 military service, after maldng- allowance for that portion which, though enrolled, was 

 not drttfted 1 



The entire number of men called for by the President was 2,942,748.' The 

 number actually furnished, in compliance with these calls, was 2,690,401. Of this 

 number, 1,331,931 men were furnished under the operations of the Provost- Marshal- 

 General's Bureau." On the 30th of April, 1865, when the war had terminated, there 

 were enrolled as liable, but up to that time undisturbed by the draft, 2,254,063 men.^ 

 If it be supposed that half of these enrolled men would have established their right to 

 exemption if they had been drafted, then the following result is obtained : 



Military ])opulation available - 5,020,942 



Men actually in service 2,690,401 



Enrolled at end of war, but not drafted 2,254,063 



Deduct for estimated exemptions 1,127,032 



1,127,031 



3,817,432 



1,203,510 



By the foregoing calculation, which probably errs by under-estimating the avail- 

 able number of the enrolled men of April, 1865, jt appears that, of 5,020,942 men 



' Final report of the Frorosi'Mar/hal-General, ji. IGO. 

 'Ibid., p. 150. 

 'Ibid., i>. 157. 



