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Increase Of The Army

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
March
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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to our ar mies smce Nov. Ist, 1863, is, by volunteer recrilit, 200.000; by tho draft of 18G3, 40,000; by'deserturs returnecl, 28,000 ; by tb e nvalid corps, 25,000; and by re-enlistcd veterans, 100,000; total, 390,000. To this ad.d 70,000 cólored troopa and 63,000 white reuruits enli.ited between tíie lst of January and tho lst of November, 1861, and we havo 528,000 as the gain to our arinios from January lst, 1863, to February 29th, 1804 Deduet 125,0.0.0 aa the uasuuhies- diaease and bat tle - for the yeur, and we have a net gain of near 400,000, all of which, ex!eept 63,00.0, has been made since "Xov. Jst, 1%$3.-Cincinnati Gazeltc. SF jüeturrm made to Parliament show that in J863 there were 162 soldiers flogged in the British army and 941 sailors in the navy. In all hut twelve cases of flogging iu te army fiftj lashes wero iuflictcd. í1 By a late amendinent to the enrollment act the $300 commutation only relieves tbp porgop bo oommuting fr oae yeai.

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Old News
Michigan Argus