But it will be said, and justly, that although after May, 1862, at least one-fourth of the territory of the seceded States was not in control of the Confederate government, and therefore not available as a recruiting ground for its armies, nevertheless many thousands of men had enlisted in the Confederate armies previous to May, 1862. Now, it appears from General Cooper's official report that the aggregate number of men and officers enrolled in March, 1862, was 340,250. And so our question is, How large a proportion of this number is to be credited to that part of the Confederacy which by May, 1862, was occupied by the Federal armies? If we assume that the part of the country thus occupied furnished as large a proportion as the rest of the Confederacy (a large assumption), then, as the population of the occupied part is estimated to have been about one-fourth of the whole, we may suppose that it furnished the Confederate army one-fourth of the total 340,000; that is to say, 85,000 men. This is probably a very large assumption, but it may be accepted for the purposes of our calculation. To sum up this part of the argument: Let it be granted that there was an available military population, first and last, in that part of the Confederacy not occupied by the Federal armies, of 927,200, To which may be added volunteers first year of war from territory occupied by Federal forces after May, 1862 85,000 And also men from Border States 75,000 --------- Aggregate 1,087,200 --------- Deductions from this as follows: Natural death rate in 2-1/2 years, before being enrolled in army, 2-1/2% 11,055 Southern men in U. S. army 55,000 Disloyal, estimated 80,000 Exempt for physical and mental disability: 20% of the whole (after deducting the two previous items) viz. 792,200 158,440 --------- 304,495 Leaving available aggregate 782,705[12] --------- Aggregate 1,087,200