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574 NortH Caroittna Troops, 1861-’65.

officers and 4,287 men, while by some inadvertance the names
of only 3 officers and no men represent the two cavalry
brigades, and 9 officers and 102 men represent the six bat-
teries of artillery ; to these add 8 officers and 153 on above list
under the head of Sundry and there is a total of 475 officers
and 4,542 men, making grand total 5,017.

In making out the total from the Parole list, it must be
noted that there are quite a number whose commands are
not given and having no means of knowing how many of
these were from this State, we have copied none of these.

Both the numbers given as above from Vol. 95, Off. Rec.
Union and Confed. Armies, and those gathered from fore-
going Parole list fall short of the truth in that neither takes
account of the North Carolinians in the Naval Battalions,
in Signal and in Engineer Corps and on similar duties.

A fair estimate would be that there were something up-
wards of 5,500 North Carolinians among the 28,231 officers
and men surrendered by General Lee or in round numbers,

one-fifth.

 

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