The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-01-30

unanimous voice Of the people, but si tho Va
unani,y the government He Is called ~ oppoSaon
to the wishes OF the head Of government fhe chAn
has disrupted the rebel Cabinet Il has dismissal s -
herens Of the res, head Of the govenmens and cAed
high and Important trusts tho whom Davis haddb
missed In short il IL to DO believed and ardenrly hopes
that Lee and his and his 70 have The
support Of the rebel Presid,at
He assumes command at "a hour whom the armies q
the Union are pressing him a. every point whas
armies has he TO oppose themi Wat are their numbers
Who are their leaders, What Is their Organizations
These questions answered In the ester which We
give below.
1t will be from this that the rebels have stun
the field three armies which may claim to bs organizes
viz
Tho Army Of Northern Virginia.
Tho Army Of Tennessee, and
The Army OF Missouri
ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
Tho principal OF these is the army OF Norther v'
ginia now commanded by Genera, Joe Johnston hs
finds IL, on assuming command, IN tho very "a ws
trenches In whbA no left Il in 1897 when wound. "a
during the days battles before Richmond
Docs he find IL as strong them Lss us examine
The army consists OF four army corps Of infantry
aud two Of cavalry There eleveu divisions,
embracing A brgados POT regiments Of infantry with
a. batteries attached Accurate data at hand SHOWS very
conclusvely that the regiments In the OF virgnh
will not average 225 10 tho regiment and lA
to the battery which would give aggregate Of 6Ss
as the Infantry force Of JohDstons army The tro cav
airy corps Of Wade Hampton and Fiz Hug, Lee nsmbcr
s regiments To this force should be added the COM
mand OF General Breckinrdse, which Is really psss o.
General Gordon's corps temporarily deachGd and
mounted, and which is held at alf times In read ness "
go tothe aid Of Richmond. This viii give @, as ne
number OF cavalry regiments In Tic army, and ,taNof
Ia, 900 cavalry, grand total Or 67325 nfAntu,
cavalry and artillery the effective strength " tin
principal army OF the rebels.
ARMY TENNESSEE.
General Hoods army looks stronger paper tran "
really s BIS organization Is very extensive and I'D
prossive but he has In his three corps really not ors
than enough to decenty nil two lie entered Ten
with effective force OF thirty Ave thousarc
men, including Forests cavalry The Official reports OF
General Thomas and numerous conhrna,oy s.atemcnH
WHICH have been Published show conclis pey tina. his
losses amounted to ftcoi thousand Til caves him
effective force of twenty thousand men, lying idle
and apparently helpless r the interior Of Mis- ssipp and
Alabama
ARMY OF MISSOURI.
In order to invade Nssocr, the entire dcpaTinle a
General Kirby Smith searched for trDos, and the
forces of General Price which, appear In the ereanzar
ton under the command OF general Yayan his SUCCESSOR
represent the only organized army W rhSs
the transfer OF Walker and other divisions u his
army to General Hoods comnsnd His army 40
cordins TO the rebel statements amosncd on 70 re-
treat from Missouri TO twenty tsisec thousand men
Thus have the effective forco of the trce o-ga tzed
armies u the rebels at only fraction osvS one hut issd
Thousand
THE UHoRG AMAZED FENCES.
Upon tsfr organized troops the afn reliance or no
enemy must be placed II will Ibe scoSt.E In the rostcS
appear the forces in the derrta bragg Hardee
Hill, Maury, Dick Taylor Wake Magrudes and Buck
These snb departments u three great military
zones or divisions OF the confeca acy are but shells n
protected by regularly Organized forces ana depending
for safety THE natural obstacA OF sSamfs deserts
and mountain and the few militia shom the necessity o.
self protection has forced into cak ana incomp'ess
organization There large nbers oil thcse reks-
ments, but IT, str effective force by no means ern1
They devbt beng rapidly In creased by conscrp
ton enforced without mercy under pressure OF Sacf
mans advance Jut they never b come formidable %
army Of veterans like Sheruan'a These militia and
garrison forces Euser, aCcoring our rt@er, ninety
regiments and about twelve field batts les, not including
those Of forty still in rebel possession. The
militia organizations doubtless rage creates
number OF men to the regiment Tie DO the veteran
regiments In consequence OF the igA .er duty required
to suppose that the militia and homs guard orgaIiza
tons will average about Two hundreA 70 tho rcyt
ment and the full compemcnt " men bnttery-one
hundred and nfy. This WIN give w, erefore, total
Of forty Thousand II be5ievx that there
not over five thousand mrn employed garrison duty
the coast Mt Mobile. Charleston, Nc This, add u
the above will give atty Thousand lc grand eotsa
Of tho rebel forces outside os tho Orgaazo syss We
have from this the following