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NUMBER OF GENERALS FROM
NORTH CAROLINA.

By THE EDITOR.

The total number of Confederate troops was between 600,-
000 and 650,000. The troops from North Carolina in Con-
federate service as above was over 125,000, or about one-fifth.

The Confederacy appointed the following General Officers
(20 So. Hist. Papers, 117):

Full Generals
Full Generals (temporary)
Of these none from North Carolina.
Lieutenant-Generals
From North Carolina two or one-tenth.
Major-Generals
From North Carolina 6 (or including J. F. Gilmer 7)
instead of 20, her quota.
Brigadier-Generals
From North Carolina 25 (or including General Rains, 26)

instead of her quota, 96.

Of her twenty-five Brigadiers, four were temporary ap-
pointments and two of them were returned to their former
rank as Colonels after a few weeks service, and of her
Major-Generals, also one was a temporary appointment.
Of her two Lieutenant-Generals, one had his appointment
withdrawn after rendering distinguished services in com-
mand of his Corps at Chickamauga, and the Senate had no
chance to confirm him as Lieutenant-General.

Investigation shows that Brigadier-General Gabriel J.
Rains and Major-General Jeremy F. Gilmer were appointed
from this State and should be added to the list of Generals

iven in the preface to Vol. 1. Neither, however, com-
manded North Carolina troops. General Rains commanded