. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . own them away when they found that they must sur-render. This was not difficult to do unobserved by theirofficers. The country was thickly wooded and open tothem on the west and north-west. A walk of half anhour would bring them to ground that neither theirofficers nor ours would pass over during their brief stayin the vicinity. At the end of February, 1865 (according to the inspec-tion reports), the Army of Northern Virginia had 3005officers and 43,052 men of infantry and cavalry
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . own them away when they found that they must sur-render. This was not difficult to do unobserved by theirofficers. The country was thickly wooded and open tothem on the west and north-west. A walk of half anhour would bring them to ground that neither theirofficers nor ours would pass over during their brief stayin the vicinity. At the end of February, 1865 (according to the inspec-tion reports), the Army of Northern Virginia had 3005officers and 43,052 men of infantry and cavalry presenteffective for the field. The artillery at this time prob-ably numbered 5000. C:ustis Lees division in the defensesof Richmond 3000, and Rossers cavalry (which joined inMarch) 2000. After making due allowance for lossesat Fort Stedman and along the lines up to March 28th,the effective strength of Lees army at the beginningof the campaign is estimated as follows: cavalry, 5000 ;artillery, 5000; infantry, 44,000 = 54,000. This does notinclude local troops and naval forces, of which no dataare •■ I ifete* m siv GRAVES OF UNION SOLDIERS AT CITY POINT. FROM A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH.
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