| Show pall r pc ll correspondence 1 tic fic of the rii ril philadelphia STRENGTH OF tite TIIE confederate tt 11 liza ilza X ri ARMIES I 1 veterans REPORT REPORTED EDiIN IN THE FIELD 1 I f NASHVILLE TENN march 2 v the great war of the amer can rebellion h has as progressed nearly three years and yet brilliant illiana camp I 1 nis ris ore are beti betl g anticipated by the nation am doubtless being conceived by the feadin leading military and political icil spirits upon both bout sides the interest taken in the rebel sUu ajon aton en grosses the attention of the whole world the dirty crowd which was wag to have been before the fourth of july 1852 1862 exists as a veteran army in action which in magnitude is 13 or oily orly ly second to our own in numbers add and discipline in the vollda worlds vor ida lda present history the country which was to llave been starved out before the of january 1864 still feeds Us its own army and a large portion odours of ours since general sherman has hag penetrated the hearton heart of the confederate states his scouts have reported to these headquarters barters that the country through which he bas baa as marched arched in abounds in in lifes necessaries ies iea for man and beast the people who heretofore lad depended upon the thil manufactures and mechanism of the north alorth for the simp simplest sim pest est com modi modifies ties of universal use now loo loom m up as a fraternity conversant with all th tho arts and sele sile sciences rices in in vogue throughout the hemispheres such stich a people who have grown from a hillock to a mountain in mechanical al immensity must be bb alten atten attentively watched during the next four months lest the they achie achieve vii successes which tie must pOSt postpone pODe pone the termination of hostilities for a long time for fon foche he past month I 1 have bien b en preparing the following I 1 which with the fa facilities elli ties afforded me here in connection with those which I 1 obtained in my last trip to chattanooga and knoxville place me in the position to give you a pretty complete and reliable daguerreotype of the present rebel situation first lehme make a remark which will often be contradicted viz that the rebels have as large a force in the field armed and equipped as ourselves not counting in the colored troops the above paragraph is an absolute fact but in all oth alfar r respects we are s bugely hugely advantage 0 siy sly sAua situated ted it is really iab lab M e to read the correspondence orsome of some bome fint jint gentlemen lemen connected with the army forin for in at arce a telegram from the army of the kotc mac to some northern journal a few days ago I 1 stated that in the three armies of lee longstreet Lyng street and johnston there were but about seventy thousand men th s is 13 an error almost mo too ridiculous to again bring into notice that these three generals have talce twice that number ma may nay y be chronicled as a fixed fact the following fo number and disposition of the rebel you may rely icly upon as neaily neady correct 4 there ma have dave bem bea some bome cb ch changes anges angles 8 sance c e portions of my notes were obtain obtained d which the pubic must overlook I 1 shall only beak of veteran troop troops in giving gavini the numbers t in the respect ive armies of the confederacy subsequently giving you the number of conscripts which have been added to each mijat portion of the southern army which constitute the forces under generalee Gener alLee aHee bounting counting n loh lob longstree street vibo A bo command commands g a pot tion tian ot of his amy numbers ninety thousand troops 0 s this ia is also counting in me the troops which are in the vicinity f Abing doit doir lynchburg and other portions of southwestern vir ehla khia p nia and east tennessee formerly under general sam jones who vi was as detached dira coed from leeb lees leebl army late in september to operate a aganet abst general burnside and which are now under un der the command com nand of john C breckinridge al ai richmond and at petersburg Peters bug there are not counting in citizens and home guards about alfree I 1 th thousand busand men between petersburg alb gin adt and aBT weldon weidon taa there ere are one thousand pd men m en all along tha railroad rai road between weldon weidon wi hion and add wil agton thele are at least six thousand men the forces under general pickett number eight ight thousand men lin irn einboden boden and mos mob mosby b y t together have four thousand men all buerl guerillas guerrillas gu erillas i liis this ewels s the army in Ea eastern tern virginia and north worth carolina to two thousand stron strong great army i i the confederacy is that thit abder general joe JOP johnston a lytton rua run of bibich is cavalry the army known kno kho n as Au earmy of ten tennessee n ersee is composed of two I 1 of which bich haa baa OX six div blons along of in t fantry numbering thirty six thousand men lacre laere there are almo alno several divisions of cavalry cava liy iry numbering at least eighteen thousand men making an aga aggregate regate of girty fifty four thousand this includes the four tout divisions sent to rein ruin pok a d dah tift tife etwo i r two divisions sent to 31 mobile obile and coth also c oth tb entire cavalry cavelry under wheeler elir wharton and J h n morgan joe johnston also bas has the command of 0 autho confederate fedr rate forced in geora Georg Ge orn oro ili iii Al alabama abatha and massi missi except those at aib alb mablle aib Alb bile and under fothas fajt at who bas baa an inde lade pendent before the sherman Sli sil erman at polk had bad tigh figh eighteen teen tean thousand troops only onit oril two d af at which were veterans to 1 wiver E ig bt t thousand is a strong number iop top for jo joe 1 e johnston of vetera veterans wr I 1 of 1116 an fn thebe these ebe ese three st ltv 44 the forces in south carolina and nod at savniah under general beauregard and in vor For fonda ponda idaj wunder 0 under tender general mccown will ten thousand the reader will mill recollect that thit fats only es the veterans orold sold ter ten as thear thearties the armies mies in thebe these three localities dhove above hov bov p mentioned at present number twenty five tiou alou f band men the next regular aimiee arcides ar tides of iafe the confederacy are we trans mississippi scitt eved ived in different p citina pi tins tina of Ar ark ArL lannas anaas and texas telis add and all under the commard of lieutenant general kirby anby S salt SAit nit Uthe 4 the army in arka arkansas under tin deg dei holme hoime s 1 abid the army in texas texis under magruder the thi old bid soldier sot which number twelve thousand men the forces at mobile under generals dabner maury and claiborne not cleburne number about eight thousand the forces under gen eral forrest and under chalmers Cb almers aimers lee and richardson will amount to six thousand which will inc ine ude all the veterans in the W re el service to this may be added however in the same line twelve thousand soldiers so diers engaged in important I 1 rison risen guard and in the hospitals bob bos and quartermasters and commissary departments there are also about two thousand men engaged in the guerrilla warfare on the banks of the mississippi no other guerrilla bands of importance exist in general grants department there is not a single squad in kentucky eist elst E and middle niddie tennessee northern alabama or northern georgia there are still several guerrilla organizations in west tennessee and northern mississippi the people themselves have rid the country of these infernal murderers and robbers in this section the following table will be ot of interest number ot of troops in lees leea army inz ins Lone streets and all other forces jn in east tennessee and Breckenrid zes and ajl all forces ia in southwestern virginia virinia inia na lumber number of troops in north carolina a and eastern virginia under generals pickett and barclay including thosa at richmond and petersburg and along the line of the virginia and north carolina railroads number cf of troops in joe johnstons j command including the army of the tennessee and other portions of his command distributed in portions of i georgia alabama and mississippi number of troops in south carolina savannah and corida Fo rida under unda r generals beauregard and mccown number of troops in the toe I 1 sippi bpi army under generals kirby 1 t smith holmes hoimes and magruder number numb r of troops at mobile nobile under geni brals maury and cliborne Cli cil borno I 1 number ot of troops udder under vorrest forrest chat chal 1 I mers mera lee and richardson goco boco 6 oco I 1 number of troops detailed as special j guards quartermasters clerks 4 hospi tal tat assistants etc etc etc number of proof a s engaged on the banks of the mississippi in the guerilla uni I 1 form 2000 total veteran troops in the hebeler I 1 vice number of conscripts lately added to 0 the rebel armie armies total number cumber of troops in the rebel army portions of these fi figures tires may seem huge to some ome bat you will aj yet find and in a short time that they are not out of the way I 1 |
