Sumner (making an aggregate of 40,000 men, not counting two divisions of Franklin's corps sent to the rescue late in the day) were completely shattered as they beat in vain against Jackson, who, with a force of less than fourteen thousand in all, "stood like a stone wall" against every assault.

M'CLELLAN'S STRENGTH.

According to his own report, General McClellan had in action on the same field eighty-seven thousand one hundred and sixty-four of all arms.

BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG, DECEMBER 13, 1862.

The "field returns" show that General Lee had, on the 10th of December, present for duty, of all arms, 78,228, and on the 20th of December, 75,524. But less than twenty thousand of these were actually engaged; this being unquestionably the easiest victory which the Army of Northern Virginia ever won.

BURNSIDE'S STRENGTH.

General Burnside states (Report on the Conduct of the War, Part I, page 656) that he had on the south side of the river and in action one hundred thousand men; but this does not include his reserves or the men who manned his powerful artillery on Stafford heights north of the river, which swelled his force to at least 113,000.

CHANCELLORSVILLE AND FREDERICKSBURG,
MAY 1-6, 1863.

When these battles opened (and he received no reinforcements until they were over) General Lee's strength of effectives was, according to the field returns, as follows:

But there should be deducted from this number Hampton's and Jones' brigades of cavalry, aggregating 3,809 (which were borne on the "field return," although really absent and not partic

ipating in any of these operations, because they belonged to the cavalry division), and this would give General Lee's actual force at the beginning of the campaign as 53,303.

HOOKER'S STRENGTH.

The compiler has before him, as he writes, the “field return” of General Hooker's army for April 30th, 1863, and the aggregate "present for duty" is 130,260 enlisted men, and 138,378 officers and men, with a grand aggregate of 157,990 "present." But the "present for duty and equipped" (which is explained to mean "only those who are actually available for the line of battle at the date of the report") is given as 133,708.

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

General Early and Colonel W. H. Taylor have shown conclusively by citation of official figures in discussions in the Southern Historical Society Papers that General Lee had at Gettysburg

The "consolidated morning report" of the Army of the Potomac shows beyond all dispute that, after deducting all noncombatants of every description, General Meade had "present for duty equipped" (actual fighting men) at Gettysburg at least—

The returns show that when Lee moved to attack Grant in the Wilderness, he had less than 64,000 men of all arms, while General Grant had with him 141,160 men of all arms.

General Lee received a total of 14,400 reinforcements from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, making the aggregate force which he led 78,400; while General Grant received reinforcements which swelled his aggregate from the Rapidan to the James to 192,160 men.

1865.

Just before the evacuation of Petersburg, General Lee had (according to his own statement) but 33,000 muskets with which to defend a line over thirty miles in length. The losses at Five Forks and in the trenches were heavy, so that when he withdrew his army from the lines on the night of the 2d of April, he had not over twenty thousand muskets available.

He surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse to the mighty hosts by which he was surrounded 7,800 men with muskets in their hands.

The figures given above make the most eloquent eulogy that can be pronounced on our heroic army and its matchless leader.

THE END.