How Many Men Have Gone to the War?
From the following statistics it appears that over one million of men from the free States have entered the field in behalf of the Union. The slave States have probably put in as many more on their side of the controversy. Of all this vast number how many will be, or have been, killed! how many maimed for life! how many be broken down, and their constitutions ruined by exposure and disease! and how many return reeking with the foulest of vices contracted in camp-life, a curse to themselves and the community! How can horrors be multiplied faster than by war! The following are the figures: The Army and Navy Journal gives, in tabular form, a statement of the volunteers furnished by all the free States except California, and by Missouri and Kentucky, for the Union armies up to this time. The tables are made up from official returns. Sixteen free States and two slave States have sent to the field 1,276,243 volunteers; of these 1,068,769 were three-years men. New York has furnished 222,836 volunteers, of which 30,131 were two-years, and 15,922 three months men. Illinois has sent out 135,440 volunteers; Massachusetts, 71,038. Kentucky has contributed 43,908 men, and Missouri 37,947.