Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-03-29

and numerical strength ofthe Confederate army.
a. Is exists AZ present:
oEsANIzATIoS o. rHr CONFEDERATE Amt,
MARCH 20
Gen Bra1ton bragg. Commander-b-Chief,
headquarters. Richmond. Va; Gen. ). Cooper,
Adjutant General
DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA
Gen Rober, z Lee. commanding: beadquar-
tiers With the army.
Troops
Seven divisions OF infantry 10 900 men
$50 pieces OF artillery. 5000 men
Fifteen regiments cavalry. IL. 900 men-90, 900
At Richmond and vicinity under General
+ zev: ~ Pc ersburg. Weldon, Colds
boro. Wilmington, aud along the rail
road between Richmond aud Whining
ton. under Gen. Picket; aud Gen.
Barclay ............ :. =. 5000
Under Gen. Imboden and Col. Mosby,
near the line of the Baltimore 4 Ohio
Railroad, and in Northern Virginia. 5000
From Lynchburg TO Arlington, in South
western Virgins. and guarding the line
of the Great Southern Railroad from
Lynchburg 10 LOngstreet's pickets in
East 7 ennessee, under Major General
John Breckinridge. .............. 5000
Total under Gen. Lees orders ... 10000
DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTHWEST.
Gen. Leonidas Polk. commanding, headQuar-
tiers, Demopolis. near Selma. Alabama
Forces under Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston
at Dalton, and operating against Gen.
W T. Sherman Tin Grants late de-
partment.) including the corps of Cen
Hardee, 10000 strong. part of which
was recently sent to Florida and the
cavalry under Forrest. Richardson. ).
Lee. and Writ Adams. $4,000
In East Tennessee, under Gen Long
street. headquarters at Bulls Cap. 90, OOC
DEPARTMENT OF TIE GULF,
until recently commanded by Gen. Beaure
gard; headquarters, Charleston, 5. G.
Troops at Charleston and Savannah. -. 81, O0(
TRASs-MIssIssIPPI DEPARTMENT.
Lieutenant General Kirby Smith commanding
Divisions Of General Price and General
Holmes, in Arkansas, ana Gen. Ma
gruders division in Texas ........ l5,00l
DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
at Mobile. under Gen Maury and Gen
Claiborne. Soc
Total number of disciplined troops. -. 275, OOi
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TROOPS
u uc tDDNt ~ pOSluVtlN Tue N0Dle NNhlItDl'
military force of the South for the campaigns o
/ 1864 They are all however. electives most o
i them being veterans of two years standing, ant
every man OF them being more or less seasone
| TO tue hardships of war, accustomed TO long an'
rapid marches. and to all the vicissitudes o
amp life. and above all. disciplined. and imbue
with the spirit which Parson Beecher truthful
ascribed 10 them in the sermon reported i'm III
World OF the 22d There are. besides, som
twenty thousand troops detached in variou
small bodies aud on special duty AT points wher
they are not available, and will be useless rein
forcements They are. besides new recruit,
Finally. there are FULLY twenty thousand soldiers
sick and wounded, in hospitals. These will b
cured, and will rejoin their regiments. But thi
will not increase the effective force Of the army
for experience has shown that about that nun
Der of the best soldiers in the South constant
ly, although not for long periods, under medica
treatment.
THE RANKS OF THE ARMY TO BE KEPT FULL.
! 1t must be confessed that the above il
smaller number of troops than have been usual
supposed to compose the Southern armies. Blu
it is really an immense force, and if properl
handled will be found sufficient to give plent
OF employmeu tor at least year to come. An
it will not do to count upon meeting in the feel
any less force than the above. The measure
which have been devised by the Southern Gov
eminent anu which are now in force, will nsur
a strength of from 2l5 900 to 800 900 men fC
some years TO come. ii the war should contnu
that long