To this must be added, by the extension of the military age down to seventeen, and up to fifty, ten per cent.--that is, in all, six additional years, 76,000. [In this calculation I adopt Mr. Adams' ratio of three-tenths by a supposed extension down to sixteen and up to sixty,--which gives in the light of the census returns about one-tenth for the _actual_ extension provided by the law of February 17, 1864, viz. down to seventeen and up to fifty years.] Then we must make a further addition (again adopting Mr. Adams' ratio), for youths reaching military age in four years, of twelve per cent. of the military population, or 91,200 men. This, with the age-extension addition--76,000--makes a total of 167,200, which, added to the original estimated population of 760,000, makes a grand total of 927,200. To this number Mr. Adams would add the men furnished by the Border States to the Confederate army, viz. (as is alleged), 117,000, a grand available total of 1,044,200. But this estimate of 117,000 men furnished the Confederate army by the Border States (Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri) cannot be relied upon as even approximately accurate. For example, it includes 20,000 men alleged to have been furnished by the State of Maryland. But a careful examination of all the Maryland organizations, including several companies in Virginia regiments, gives a total of only 4,580 from the State of Maryland; and this number must be largely reduced by names duplicated through re-enlistments. Applying the ratio adopted by the War Department of the United States, we must deduct at least 920 men, which leaves a total of only about 3,500. Even this I believe to be too large. This item alone reduces the estimate of 117,000 to about 100,000. I will discuss this subject at length a little further on in this paper, and will only say here that there is good reason to believe 100,000 an excessive estimate of the number actually furnished to the Confederate colors by the Border States. Let us place the figure at 75,000 as a compromise. Then we should have: Grand total of men available in the Southern States 927,200 Furnished by the Border States 75,000 --------- Total 1,002,200 NECESSARY DEDUCTIONS Let us turn now to the deductions that have to be made from this number.