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• To supply such losses in our Western Armies require rceruils nr ilia rate of nearly twea-lj- per ] ,000 per month, or 234 per 1,000 per annum; of winch latter ;proportion yfi arc required to supply tlie annual lass from deaths; 10 L the loss from dir charges from., service, nmiuly from disability;‘35 tbe loig.lrom misusing in action and from desertion?, mul 2 from other causes.' ! 'It will be. observed that- the nil mb or of‘miss uml of ‘desert era*; in II112 Eastern-volnn-leer nr my-is more than double, the number of I classes in the Western volunteer forces./. Taking the ruUniiig,of the period from the 1st of June, IS61. to the 1st of March, 1862, as the basis of calculation, it is estimated that to secure' iti the field u constant forue of 600r 0C0 effective me a, the nation/must not - only maintain :nS,OO0 sirk men, 'bet must nf so recruit the ranks of Ins enlisted portion of tbase.. forces witliD'jw material uL Lhc rate, of .123-OOO per annum so .long.as.the war shall Inst —a rate somewhat exceeding. 10,000 recruits per month/.-0:f .these . 123,000 an mi a i. recruits 83,000 are to supply lo?scs by. deiith and discharges from service, (exclusive of discharges for expiration of term (ff enlistment’:)34.000 for desertions and- missing', in,action; and? 6,000 to supply other. Iofsc*:specified andutispeeiGed, p:..v ... VFive hundred thousand . effective men arc equivalent .in number to the number of men in 0 7 3 ro^i men la c f. th c ay or age' n 11 mericit 1 strength, (that !?,, 872,men cacli);ihe' 53,000 sick tire equivalent to 69 regiments'of average'.' numerical strength; nnd the/entire' force of553.000 men necessary to-.be- .maintained,'*™, order to secure the. sen vice, qf, 500,000 “e ffce-.' tjjre men,’Ips equivalent to lt;640 regiments of average strength.• ; ./ , ;
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Elyria Independent Democrat
Elyria, Ohio, US
Wed, Feb 04, 1863
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