The military population of Virginia in 1861, exclusive of West Virginia, is estimated by Livermore at 116,000 Add one-tenth for extension of military age down to seventeen and up to fifty 11,600 Add twelve per cent. for youths maturing to seventeen in four years 13,920 ------- Total 141,520 Deduct exempts for physical and mental defects, twenty per cent 28,304 ------- Available military population 113,216 But the representative writer in "_The South_" puts the number of men furnished by Virginia to the Southern armies at 175,000, which is 61,784 more than the available military population! Could there be a more palpable _reductio ad absurdum_?[13] Besides, as I have shown, in Virginia and all the States there were large numbers of men exempt as State officers. This considerably increases the twenty per cent. which Colonel Fox says are in all countries exempted from military service. Take next Florida: Her military population in 1861 was 15,739 Add one-tenth for extension of military age down to seventeen and up to fifty 1,573 Add twelve per cent. for youths attaining seventeen years in four years 1,888 ------- 19,200 Deduct exempts, twenty per cent. 3,840 ------- Available military population 15,360 But the writer quoted by Mr. Adams states that Florida furnished 15,000 to the Confederate States army, and the War Office records show that she furnished the Union army 1,270; making a total of 16,270, which is 900 more than the entire available military population! Georgia.--Military population in 1861 was 111,005 Add one-tenth for extension of military age down to seventeen and up to fifty 11,100 Add twelve per cent. for youths attaining seventeen years in four years 13,320 ------- Total 135,425 Deduct twenty per cent. for exempts 23,085 ------- Available military population 112,340 But the alleged enrollment in the Confederate States army is 120,000, which is 7,110 more than the available military population, making no allowance for the failure of the conscript officers to put into the army every man liable to military duty, and none for the thousands exempt from service.