California - Nevada - Oregon - Washington Ter. - Delaware 954 Dist. Columbia 3,269 Kentucky 23,703 Maryland 8,718 Missouri 8,344 West Virginia 196 ------ Total, Border States 45,184 Alabama 4,969 Arkansas 5,526 Florida 1,044 Georgia - Louisiana 3,486 Mississippi 17,869 North Carolina 5,035 South Carolina 5,462 Tennessee 20,133 Texas 47 Virginia - ------ Total, Southern States 63,571 STATES AND TERRITORIES.--(_Continued._) Colored Troops furnished 1861-'65. Indian Nation - Colored Troops[96] - ------- Grand Total 173,079 At Large 733 Not accounted for 5,083 Officers 7,122 ------- Total 186,017 Notwithstanding the complete demonstration of fact that Negroes were required as United States soldiers, there were many opposers of the movement. Some of the best men and leading journals were very conservative on this question. An elaborate and cautious editorial in the "New York Times" of February 16, 1863, fairly exhibits the nervousness of the North on the subject of the military employment of the Negro. "USE OF NEGROES AS SOLDIERS. "One branch of Congress has rejected a bill authorizing the enlistment of negro soldiers. Mr. Sumner declares his intention to persist in forcing the passage of such a law by offering it as an amendment to some other bill. Meantime the President, by laws already enacted, has full authority over the subject, and we can see no good object to be attained by forcing it into the discussions of Congress and adding it to the causes of dissension already existing in the country at large.