THIRD CORPS-Lieutenant-General A. P. HILL. ANDERSON'S DIVISION-Major-General R. H. ANDERSON. PENDER'S DIVISION-Major-General W. D. PENDER. Summary of Artillery (exclusive of Horse Artillery). CAVALRY DIVISION-Major-General J. E. B. STUART. RELATIVE NUMBERS OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA AND THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, AT THEIR PRINCIPAL BATTLES. The following figures are very carefully compiled from "field returns," official reports, etc., and are believed to be as nearly accurate as it is now possible to make them. General Lee said, in a letter to General Early written after the war: "It will be difficult to get the world to understand the odds against which we fought," and it is not surprising that Northern writers have either ignored or attempted to explain away these unpalatable figures. But the stubborn facts remain that the Federal Government had a white population of more than 20,000,000 from which to draw its soldiers; that the whole world was its recruiting ground, and that it drew very largely on the negro population of the South; that the Confederacy had only a nominal population of 7,000,000 of whites, while the actual white population upon which it depended to recruit its armies was under 5,000,000; and that from the beginning we fought against fearful odds, which gradually increased until the close. I have space for only the aggregates of the numbers of the opposing armies, but hold myself prepared to give the details by which I arrive at my results and to verify and prove the accuracy of the figures given. General McClellan had present at the beginning of these battles a total effective force of all arms of at least 105,000 men. Colonel W. H. Taylor (pp. 62-65, "Four Years With Lee") has shown conclusively from the official figures that General Pope had "near fifty thousand men" before receiving any reinforcements from General McClellan, and that from first to last there were in front of Washington, to resist General Lee's advance, not less than one hundred and twenty thousand men. "General Pope puts his strength on the 1st of September, at Centreville, after the fighting was over, at sixty thousand men. His losses in killed and wounded were very heavy, but his missing must have been enormous to account for this difference." SHARPSBURG, OR "ANTIETAM.” General Lee told the writer not long before his death that he fought this battle "with less than forty thousand men." The official reports, as cited by Colonel Taylor, show his strength to have been as follows: General Lee had with him when the battle began on the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1862, less thar eighteen thousand men; and on the left the three corps of Hooker, Mansfield and |