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TABLE SHOWING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS ORIGINALLY IN THE SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE STATE, ETC.-Concluded.

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+ October 1st, 1865.

‡ Drafted men who paid commutation; volunteers, substitutes and drafted men, mustered out before assignment; musters in the field reported by the War Department, without stating organization.

§ To the number of 615 remaining in the service, November 1st, 1865; should be added 145 transferred from the 20th and 23d regiments.

QUOTAS AND CREDITS TROOPS.

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26] Among the items suggested in a review of the foregoing table, your attention is invited to the total mortality occasioned by wounds or disease, amounting to one in every eight (or nearly) of the entire number furnished. In the preparation of this table it also appears that the regiments serving principally in the western campaigns suffered more heavily in losses by disease, owing undoubtedly to climatic influence, and quality of the water upon which the army was dependent. These figures are not to be taken as exact; they are, however, a close approximation, and are as correct as a careful and thorough examination of official records will permit me to furnish.

The relative losses of regiments in action, or death from wounds or disease, will be found at the close of each regimental narrative.1

QUOTAS AND CREDITS.

The following is a recapitulation of account between this state and the General Government, under all calls during the war of the rebellion, giving the corrected quotas under each. and so far as possible, the credits applicable to each:

STATE OF WISCONSIN, FOR TROOPS FURNISHED UNDER THE DIFFERENT
CALLS DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.

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Your Excellency's attention is invited to one or two facts in connection with the above statement of account. First, 27] that the state has furnished an excess of twelve hundred

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1 Losses of each regiment and battery are printed in collected form in Vol. 3.

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and sixty-three (1263) over her entire quota, which, if not large, is all that was required, and in connection with which this fact should also be made prominent, viz: that very few exceptions, in which recruits joined companies forming in counties adjacent to surrounding states, which number is fully offset by counter enlistment,-these are Wisconsin men.

The Act of Congress and subsequent orders of the War Department authorizing recruiting in rebel states. were not looked upon in this state as furnishing extraordinary inducements for active exertions in that direction, and while formal appointment and permission were given to various applicants, no special effort was put forth by the state. The correctness of our position is fully confirmed by the reports of commanding officers of the military departments south, and the results of this system in some of the states adopting it. Statistical evidence already developed shows that after all the expense and trouble incident to this labor, and transportation of the recruits, a large percentage deserted before reaching their regiments, and were mainly worthless, other than to count to the credit of the state which furnished them, and proving a loss to the General Government.

In this matter Wisconsin has a right to claim for herself a just and proper record. She sought to shirk no responsibility nor to avail herself of representation foreign to the state, but from her shops, her farms and offices, her own sons went forth to fill the ranks of her regiments, manfully daring and doing whatever was required.

It will further be noticed that the total credit differs some five thousand from the number announced by the Provost Marshal General in October last and published to the people. of the state. The records of this office, already approaching completion in this respect, did not confirm the statement, but it was deemed best to await further developments before raising any question in the matter. A letter from the same bureau under date of October 23d, notified us that an error existed in the former statement, and that the correct total credit is as stated, ninety-one thousand three hundred and seventy-nine (91,379). In this conclusion the records of the War Department and this office agree, the account by sub-districts since October 12th, 1863, differing but twenty-eight (28) in

MUSTER OUT OF TROOPS.

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28] number, from the records of the Assistant Provost Marshal General in this state.

Of this total number, five thousand seven hundred and eighty-four (5,784) are re-enlisted veterans under the War Department order of June 25th, 1863, and it is believed that five thousand will cover all re-enlistments of others discharged for disability and other reasons, thereby giving an actual individual enlistment and service from this state in round numbers of eighty thousand.

An average of the population of the state, under the census of 1860, and that of 1865, gives the sum of eight hundred ' and twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-eight (822,278). The total number furnished, viz: ninety-one thousand three hundred and seventy-nine (91,379), is, therefore, (omitting fractional figures) equal to one in every nine of the entire population, and one in every five of the entire male population of the state; or, taking the presidential vote of 1864 as a basis, more than one in every two voters in the state.

MUSTER OUT OF REGIMENTS.

Immediately after the cessation of hostilities, the War Department issued orders to commence the muster out of the Union forces; the first order embracing those only whose term of service expired on or before the first of October, 1865. The agricultural needs were such, and the demand for laborers so great in every industrial department of the state, that your Excellency made a personal request of the Secretary of War to extend the provisions of that order, so far as our troops were concerned, and urging that, for the above reasons, all of our regiments might be mustered out at the earliest practicable moment.

The Fifth battery was the first organization to reach the state under orders mustering out, arriving on the sixth of June, since which time others have returned as fast as relieved from their various posts of service, in the following order:

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5th Battery Light Art.. 12th Battery Light Artillery. 25th Regiment Infantry. 10th Battery Light Artillery. 21st Regiment Infantry. 24th Regiment Infantry. 22d Regiment Infantry. 32d Regiment Infantry. 26th Regiment Infantry 5th Regiment Infantry. 31st Regiment Infantry 42d Regiment Infantry. 29th Regiment Infantry. 43d Regiment Infantry Co. "E," 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. Co. "F," 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. Co. "G," 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. Co. "H." 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. Co. "I," 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. Co. "K," 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. Co. "L." 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. Co. "M," 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. 3d Battery Light Artillery. 6th Battery Light Artillery.. 4th Battery Light Artillery. 7th Regiment Infantry 23d Regiment Infantry. 36th Regiment Infantry, 16th Regiment Infantry 6th Regiment Infantry 17th Regiment Infantry. 20th Regiment Infantry. 12th Regiment Infantry45th Regiment Infantry. 3d Regiment Infantry. 18th Regiment Infantry 1st Battery Light Artillery 1st Regiment Cavalry. 38th Regiment Infantry. 37th Regiment Infantry 52d Regiment Infantry. 19th Regiment Infantry. 33d Regiment Infantry 8th Battery Light Artillery. Co. "A," 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. Co. "D," 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. 51st Regiment Infantry. 28th Regiment Infantry. 44th Regiment Infantry. 27th Regiment Infantry.. Co. "B," 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. 11th Regiment Infantry.. 30] 47th Regiment Infantry. 8th Regiment Infantry. 30th Regiment Infantry. Co. "C," 1st Reg. Heavy Art.. 46th Regiment Infantry. 9th Battery Light Artillery 14th Regiment Infantry. 49th Regiment Infantry 3d Regiment Cavalry. 2d Regiment Cavalry.

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2d Battery Light Artillery. 7th Battery Light Artillery. 11th Battery Light Artillery.. 13th Battery Light Artillery.. 13th Regiment Infantry.

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2 July 20, 1865.

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Col. George D. Rogers..
Col. Ezra T. Sprague.
Col. Bradford Hancock.
Col. Amasa Cobb..
Capt. Justus H. Potter.
Capt. Jared S. W. Pardee.
Capt. Henry F. Rouse.
Capt. Charles S. Taylor.
Capt. David H. Saxton.
Capt. Wallace H. Jennings.
Capt. P. Henry Ray.
Capt. Ira H. Ford.
Lieut. Joseph W. Wait....
Capt. James G. Simpson..
Capt. Dorman L. Noggle...
Col. Hollon Richardson..
Col. Joshua J. Guppey.
Col. Clement E. Warner
Col. Cassius Fairchild..
Col. John A. Kellogg.
Col. Adam G. Malloy
Col. Henry Bertram
Col. James K. Proudfit.
Col. Henry F. Belitz.
Col. William Hawley.
Col. Charles H. Jackson.
Captain Daniel Webster.
Col. Oscar H. La Grange.
Col. Colwert K. Pier.
Col. John Green..
Lieut Col. Hiram J. Lewis.
Col. Samuel K. Vaughan.
Col. Jonathan B. Moore.
Capt. Henry E. Stiles...
Capt. Wallace M. Spear.
Capt. Cornelius V. Bridge.
Col. Leonard Martin.
Col. Edmund B. Gray
Col. George G. Symes.
Col. Conrad Krez..........
Capt. Charles W. Hyde.
Col. Charles L. Harris.......
Col George C. Ginty.
Col. William L. Brittan.
Col. Daniel J. Dill..
Capt. John R. Davis
Col. Frederick S. Lovell.
Capt. Watson D. Croker.
Col. Lyman M. Ward...
Col. Samuel Fallows...
Col. Thomas Derry..........
Col. Nicholas H. Dale..
Capt. Charles Beger..
Capt. Arthur B. Wheelock...
Capt. John Rourke.-
Capt. Richard R. Griffith
Capt. Samuel C. Cobb..

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July 20, 1865.

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