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The report of the Provost-Marshal-General shows the combined strength of the Union Armies, at different periods before and during the war, to have been:
Date. Present. Absent. Aggregate.
Jan. 1, 1861 14,663 1,704
Regular Army.16,367
July 1, 1861 183,588 3,163 186,751
Jan. 1, 1862 527,204 48,713 575,917
Mch.
31, 1862 533,984 103,142 637,126
Jan. 1, 1863 698,802 219,389 918,191
Jan. 1, 1864 611,250 249,487 860,737
Mch.
31, 1865 657,747 322,339 980,086
May 1, 1865 797,807 202,709 1,000,516
It would be impossible to state the number of individuals who served in the war, as so many of the men, after serving a short term, enlisted for a second, and often for a third, time.
Then, again, nearly all of the three years regiments that volunteered in 1861 reenlisted in January, 1864, for another three years term of service.
There were 136,000 of these veterans who reenlisted and were counted twice in the number of troops (2,036,700) reported as enl