The Numerical Strength of the Confederate Army: An examination of the argument of the Hon. Charles Francis Adams and othersMcKim, Randolph H. (Randolph Harrison)
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The Numerical Strength of the Confederate Army: An examination of the argument of the Hon. Charles Francis Adams and others
McKim, Randolph H. (Randolph Harrison)
Confederate States of America. Army
INFANTRY
First Maryland Infantry, number of men 782
Second Maryland Infantry 627
Company B, Twenty-first Virginia, Colonel
L. Clarke 109
One company, Thirteenth Virginia Lanier
Guards, estimated 75
One company, Sixty-first and Sixty-second
Virginia, estimated 65
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Total Infantry 1,658
CAVALRY
First Maryland, Colonel Ridgeley Brown 74
Company K, First Virginia; transferred in
August, 1864, to First Maryland 197
Lieutenant Harry Gilmour Battalion,
estimated 250
Colonel Sturgis Davis Battalion, estimated 100
One Maryland Company in Seventh Virginia,
estimated 75
One Maryland Company in Thirty-fifth Virginia,
Colonel Elijah White 103
One Maryland Company in Forty-third Virginia,
Colonel Mosby, estimated 75
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Total cavalry 674
ARTILLERY
Colonel Snowden Andrews 204
Second Maryland, Captain Griffin 197
Third Maryland, Colonel Rowan, Captain
Ritter 350
In Western Army, Fourth Maryland,
Chesapeake, Captain Brown, Captain
Chew 137
Captain Brethed, Horse Artillery (a Maryland
battalion, though mustered into service
as Virginian) 75
Baltimore Heavy Artillery, estimated 100
Marylanders at Charleston, South Carolina,
estimated 225
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Total artillery 1,288
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Grand total 4,580
These figures are compiled from the muster rolls, with the exception of
those "estimated." It is to be observed that a very large proportion of
the men in the Second Maryland Infantry were those who had previously
served in the First Maryland Infantry; so that there is a good deal of
duplication there by reënlistment. On the other hand, there were many
individual Marylanders in various regiments accredited to other States.
We have also the names of 137 Marylanders who were officers in various
other commands.
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