Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-07-22

under ali tlle calls. about seven hundred thous.
and men. exclusive Of negro soldiers and lone
hundred DAYS men. have been pot In the field
For the accuracy of this statement We have good
Republican authority-the statement OF Senator
Wilson OF Massachusetts. Chairman the Com
mittee on Military Affairs. made i'm the course of
a discussion in the Senate on the 9th OF June.
Mr.. WilsorIsaid:
1.-The SENATOR from California speaks of the
spasmodic :sction OF the administrators Of the
government in raising men during the last few
months roes the Senator know that we have
raised or recruited since the 18th day OF October
last six hundred thousand meo. not to count
black men. and that within the past wear we have
nut into ths field seven hundred thousand men:
that we IN e made an exertion such as few
tons ever ade and few nations can make; that
we have s. Int sl25. nO0. 900 in boRpties. that we
have draft{l: that We have used the whole power
and inhuerce OF the government 10 increase our
military 70, cesg Sir ve have put forth effort
that sxcites the as,onishment and commands the
.sdmirationsof the world: vet the Senator from
California. <whose constitu ents are not drafted
nor called tpon. rises to-day and rebukes the ad
ministratios.. rebukes US and talks Tlibly Of the
timid councils Of men who quite as hopeful.
determineGsand brave as himself"
Thus il 8 easy to arrive at the total number
of men cazed out since the outbreak Of the re-
bellon j. is given conciselv in the following
table:
NUMBER OF MIN SUMMONED TO THE FIELD.
Under Presidents first CALL April 49, Issl..... 1855
vosnteer. fer the war. 1851 ESQ 97l
Under Presidents call Of July 1. ls62-.. 100000
Militia caeA ont In August. 1852 ....... 100000
Militia cal'e Put in June, lS53.. .-......- 10000
BY conscript July. ls6s. go 600
Since nth II October, 100000
Total Total; .aS :.,S,.. month. s .Ss &c &c
Balance Observation-Disclosures. 1910 ssi
Thus il : seen that the enormous number OF
one milliorF line hundred and ten thousand nine
hundred AID sixty-one men have been placed in
the field. exclusive Of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
militia. Of ele black soldiers. and the hundred
DAVIS men who recently offered their services
So instesd OF Mr. Madson's "hundredth part
of the whoe number of souls. we have sent 10 the
field an arsy composed in the ratio of about one
in every ed ven of the total population-estima-
ting the later at twenty-one millons-or abou.
two-ffths &C the male population between the
ages of eighteen and forty 6ve
PREtESr STRENGTH OF THE ARMY.
But il bust be remembered that the above
statement ,ncludes men who have served ore
term and re enlisted: men who have been
counted t%ice in the estimates Of the War De
partment->as a large portion of the militia who
served three months at the beginning of the war
and afterwards enlisted for three years-and
large nuslber of "three months" and mine
months" men. exclusive of the above, who have
also enlisted for the longer period. So. with
the deductsn Of our losses and that Of those who
have been twice enumerated. il is not safe 10
state the strength of our army at more than from
seven humid ed and fftv to eight hundred thou
men, force one would think. even thus shorn
sufficiently astounding in numbers to satisfy the
ideas of the most ambitious American. proud ss
he may be Of the vastness of his country's terri
tory and resources, and however much he may
be determined TO be governed by the peculsrl,
American characteristic of "doing things on a
big scale"
The Philadelphia Age gives the total number
in the feld.at six hundred and sixty thousand
divided as il the annexed table: