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a total of 5,638; while, as stated on page 83 of my address, our surplus over all calls is 7,813. The number of colored recruits enlisted in rebel States was 1,214; the whole number of foreigners, 907,—a total of 2,121. Asking your indulgence for troubling you with my effort to maintain the good fame of our State, and hoping that you may carry out your plan of visiting this part of the country next summer, I remain very respectfully your friend and servant, John A. Andrew. P. S. Strictly speaking, the 1,214 enlisted in the rebel States are all who come under your head of captured negroes, as the rest of the 4,731 were enlisted here as free colored men, from whom we raised two regiments of infantry and one of cavalry. This letter to General Sherman requires a simple explanation. General Sherman was a United-States army officer, and entertained the prejudice which prevailed to a great extent among that class of gentlemen against the enlistment of colored troops; and,