5^3 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 013 709 182 3 • TusomxUCeLA MUU of §nv iJovH. COMMUNICATION FKOM THEGOVEMOR, AND REPORT OP THE COMMISSION APrOLNTED BY THE PRESIDENT TO DETEUMINt AND ASCERTAIN Tllli QUOTA OF THIS STATE, tTNDEB THI DIFFERENT CALLS FOR TROOPS. I TEAKSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE MARCH 1, 1884. A J. B A N Y : COMSTOCK A CASSIDY, PRINTERS. 1864. . ?• 7.3 Qr^^ -i- tatt of Srli) Bork. cy' :N"o. 96. IN ASSEMBLY,- March 1, 1864. COMMUNICATION FROM THE OOVERNOR, AND REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT TO DETERMINE AND ASCERTAIN THE QUOTA OF THIS STATE UNDER THE DIFFERENT CALLS FOR TROOPS. STATE OF NEW YORK: Executive Department, ? Albany, March \st, 1864. \ To the Legislature : In my Annual Message, in referring to the enrolment and the draft, I alluded to the inequality of the enrolment as follows : "New York is required to furnish more than other States in proportion to its population. This is shown by the following tables : The average ratio of enrolment to the male population in the Western States, is 19 per ct. In New Jersey - .. 20 " In Pennsylvania 18| " In the New England States it is , 17 " In the State of New York it is 22 " Massachusetts, with ten Congressmen and a popula- tion of 1,231,006, has to furnish, under the recent call for 300,000 men 15,126 The first nine Congressional districts of the State of New York, with a population of 1,218,949, are called upon for 25,166 The quota of Vermont and New Hampshire, with a united population of 641,1*71, and six Representa- tives in Congress, and four Senators, is 7,099 The quota of two Congressional districts in New York the 4th and 6th, with a population of 283,229, is.. 7,628 [Assem, No. 96.J 1 2 [Assembly It is not claimed that this inequality grows out of any defici- ency of volunteers heretofore furnished by this State. Messrs. James A. Bell, 0. Kellogg, and Wm. 11. Bogart, at my request, called the attention of the Secretary of War to this sub- ject. He promptly appointed William F. Allen, of this State, John Love, of Indiana, and Chauncey Smith, of Massachusetts, a commission to determine upon some fair mode for correcting these glaring inequalities." This commission, composed of two citizens of other States, with one from the State of New York, have come to a unanimous conclusion, that the enrolment for the State of New York, under the Act of March 3d, 1863, was "imperfect, erroneous and exces- sive, especially so with reference to the cities of New York and Brooklyn." The commission, after due consideration, recommend, in view of the inaccuracies of the enrolment, that the quota of 60,378 men allotted to this State, under the call of the President of October l7th, 1863, be reduced to 52,858, with a corresponding reduction under the call of February 1st, 1864. ' I am happy to state that I have received information from Washington, that the quota of this State, for the calls of 500,000 men-, has been reduced, as recommended by the commission — such reduction amounting to between thirteen and fourteen thousand men. In a crisis like the present, the saving of so many men to the industrial interests of the State, should not be lightly estimated. The labor of thirteen thousand men, distributed throughout the State, will afford great relief, especially in the rural districts, where farm laborers are now, with difficulty, obtained. While the State pays a bounty of $75 to each volunteer, local bounties vary from $300 to $600 per man. In a financial point of view, this reduction therefore results in a saving of at leiast five inillions of dollars to the people of New York. It is gratifying to me to be able to bear testimony to the aid received, in the adjustment of the matter at Washington, from several Senators and a number of Repi-esentatives in Congress. It is also due to the Secretary of War, to state, that he has shown a willingness to do justice to the State of New York, in this matter, by the appointment of an able and impartial com- mission. No. 96.] 3 The following extracts from the report of the commissioners show the views held by them : " The commission, after a full investigation, and in view of all the facts elicited, are unanimously of the opinion, that the enrol- ment in the State of New York is imperfect and erroneous, ex- cessive in some districts, and possibly too small in others, and certainly excessive in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, and especially as compared with other States, and cannot be relied upon as a just and equitable basis for the assignment of the quota of the State of New York, or among the several districts thereof. Justice to the enrolling officers and agents requires, that it should be distinctly stated, that their fidelity or integ- rity is by no means impeached by any inaccuracies that may ex- ist in the enrolment. They were the necessary result of the execution of the law under the circumstances and with the means at the command of the officers, and it is not perceived how they could be avoided." " In conclusion, the commission are of the opinion, and so re- port, that the quota assignee! to the State of New York, and the quota assigned to the several districts of the cities of New York and Brooklyn are erroneous and excessive, and should be re- duced." HORATIO SEYMOUR. The special commission appointed by the Secretary of War, by order, bearing date the fifth day of December, 1863, " to revise the enrolment and quotas of the city ■ and State of New York, and report whether there be any . and what errors and irregularities therein, and what corrections, if any, should be made." Respectfully REPORT : That in pursuance of said order the commission met and organized in the city of New York, on the 16th day of December, 1863, and appointed Leander Babcock, Esq., of the city of Oswego, clerk, that they remained in session during that and the two succeeding days, and after conferences with General William Hays, acting Assistant Provost Marshal General on 4 [Assembly duty in the city of Naw York, and Col. Nugent, liis predecessor, and determining so far as they could ujjon the mode of proced- ure, and what information and documents would be required to enable them to discharge the duties devolved upon them, adjourned to meet at the same place on Tuesday, the 5th day of January, 18G4. During the recess. General Love, one of the said commission, at the request and by the direction of his associates, visited Washington and Albany to confer with the War Department of the General Government, and the proper authorities of the State of New York, and obtain such information and documents as then could be procured, and subsequently Mr. Smitli, another member of the commission, at the request of his associates, visited Washington for a like purpose. The commission again convened in the city of New York, on said 5th day of January, 1864, and have continued in session from day to day until the present time, making such progress in the work assigned them as they could with the means and in- formation at hand, or within their reach. There has been some delay in the investigations and examina- tions for the want of information and documents from the War Department, which could not at once be furnished, and some of which had to be obtained by the department from different branches of the service or from other sources. This explanation is made not for the information of the War Department, but for the benefit of others interested in the action of the commission, and who may not be familiar with all the facts. ■ The commission take pleasure in acknowledging the readiness and promptness with which Col. Fry, the Provost Marshal General of the United States, has furnished them with the docu- ments and information asked, and facilitated so far as he could all their labors. They have also received valuable aid' in the form of statistics and tables and estimates of the different classes of population in the several States, from Hon. Mr. Kennedy, of the Census Bureau, at Washington. They have also been attended from time to time by Col. Nugent, and have called l^efore them and examined the provost marshals of the several districts in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, who were in service and took part in the enrolment of 1863. They were also assisted in their labors for a time by Capt. Turner, of the volunteer service, who was detailed by No. 96.] 5 General Hays for tliat purpose, and they -would state generally that every desired aid and facility has been furnished by General Hays, and all under his command, or in any way con- nected with the military service. • Major J. B. Stonehouse, Assistant Adjutant General of the State of New York, has attended the commission upon several ■occasions, and made valuable suggestions, and placed at the dis- posal of the commission such records and documents as were in the State offices. The object of the commission was First. To ascertaiu whether the enrolment of the city and State of New York was perfect and accurate, or so nearly so as to constitute a just and equitable basis for the assignment of quotas, and the apportionment of men to be furnished for the military service of the United States ; and Secondly. In case the enrolment should appear to be so mater- ially and substantially imperfect or erroneous, as not to form a proper basis for the purpose named, to determine whether it could be corrected and made perfect and complete, or reasonably so, that is, so corrected as to show with reasonable accuracy the actual number of men in the State and the several districts thereof, liable to be enrolled and to military service, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1863. An excessive enrolment in any State will not work an injust- ice as a basis for a draft, provided men are called into service only by drawing a given number or proportion of those enrolled, and onl}' such are taken as are obtained and held to service upon such draft. The enrolment of exempts, or the swelling of the list by fictitious names, or the names of non-residents, increases the number to be drawn from, and of course the number of names to be drawn, but the names improperly enrolled represent a like number in the draft and the names actually drawn, and thus balance the account. But if the number which the proportion called for would give is required to be furnished, either by repeating the draft until it is obtained, or by volunteers to be furnished by the State, it is obvious that an accurate enrolment is indispensable, and an excessive enrolment will operate to the prejudice of the State. For example, in a given district there are precisely 500 men belonging to the " first class," as defined in the " Conscription act," and these are all enrolled, and with them 500 who are non- 6 [Assembly residents, aliens, or otherwise exempt. Upon an order for a draft of one-fifth, the government would be entitled to 100 men, and very likely would obtain but that number upon a draft from the whole 1000, although 200 names would be drawn. But if the draft is repeated or the district made to furnish volunteers until one-fifth of the 1000 are furnished, the government will get 200 men instead of 100, that is two-fifths instead of one-fifth of the 500 men properly enrolled. Again, if the enrolment of one State is excessive as compared with other Slates, it will not constitute a proper basis for the apportionment of men to be furnished by the several states for the United States military service, and whether one State enrolls more thanjhe proper number, or the other States enroll less, the result will be the same. For instance, suppose two districts, each containing precisely 1,000 men of the "first class," and who should be enrolled, and in one the whole 1,000 are enrolled, while in the other but 800 are enrolled ; upon a draft of one- fourth ordered upon the basis of the enrolment, the former dis- trict would furnish 250 men, while the latter would furnish but 200. So that even upon a draft ordered upon an apportionment among the several States, in proportion to the number of men enrolled, or in any way upon the basis of the enrolment, it is indispensable to complete justice between the States that tha enrolment should bo substantially complete and perfect in all the States, that is that all should be enrolled who are liable to serve in the " National Forces," as defined by the act of Congress before mentioned. If the enrolment in any one State is defect- ive it will destroy the equality of the apportionment. In proceeding to ascertain the accuracy of the enrolment, the commission had before them the law of Congress under which the same was made, and the several orders emanating from the War Department to the officers charged with the enrolment, and called before them and examined upon interrogatories, and when deemed necessary orally, but without oath, the several provost marshals under whose immediate direction and supervision the enrolment in the cities of New York and Brooklyn was made. The result of this branch of the investigation accorded substantially Avith the suggestions of Colonel Fry in his report to the Secretary of AVar, dated November 17, 1863, that imperfections and errors must exist to a greater or less extent, for the reasons briefly sta- ted in that report. And to this the commission would add that No. 96.] 1 these imperfections and errors will necessarily occur to a greater extent in a large city than in a rural district, and the more tran- sient and floating tlie population in a given district the greater the liability to an erroneous and excessive enrolment. Difficul- ties were encountered by the officers in making the enrolment in the "Metropolitan Districts," which did not exist certainly to so great an extent elsewhere. In the older settled and agricultural districts, the age, condition and liability to military service of every male citizen would be very likely known to the enrolling officer, so that little if any reliance need be placed upon informa- tion acquired while collecting the names or perfecting the enrolled lists, while the officer could, in the nature of things, know but little if anything of the great mass of individuals in the more populous districts and large cities. In some districts the officer would be compelled to rely mainly upon what he could learn upon inquiries made while traversing his district in the discharge of this particular duty, and bearing iu mind, as he should, the great aversion of the masses to the enrolment as a preliminary to a draft, he would rec(5ive with dis- trust and suspicion every statement which would tend to keep the name of an individual from the list of the enrolled, and in a majority of cases would, in the language of the officers examined, " give the government the benefit of the doubt," and enroll the man, leaving him to establish his exemption before the enrolling board. Again, questions of alienage, physical disability, &c., could not be decided by the enrolling officers, but were left to the decision of the board. In fact, they were not passed upon until after the draft, and in respect to those who, when drafted, claimed exemp- tion upon the grounds suggested. Indeed, these questions cannot be either well or satisfactorily decided in the progress of an- enrolment. " Alienage " cannot be well determined except upon an investigation to some extent judicial; and "physical disa- bility " can in most cases only be passed upon by a competent surgeon. Residence and age may, in some and perhaps most instances, be determined by the enrolling officer, if sufficient time and opportunity for investigation be given. To speak particularly of the city of New York, several causes operated, it may be said, necessarily to produce an erroneous and excessive enrollment. 1st. There is in the city a large floating population (said by 8 [Assembly some to amount to 30,000 or over), having no permanent resi- dence, or none that can be satisfactorily ascertained, and many moving from place to place, and whose proper place of enrolment, even if liable at all, will always be doubtful. This class would be very likely enrolled wherever found, and in as many districts as they should ,be found in while the enrolment is being made. 2d. At all -times the city has been the resting place and tem- porary abode of a large body of alien emigrants, and this class has largely increased since the existence of the war, as emigra- tion has been greatly stimulated by the high price of labor and other causes ; and while there has been a large drain from the foreign population into the army, the aggregate number now in the city is probably not less than at former periods, and the pro- portion of aliens, that is those who have not taken any steps to become naturalized, it is thought is larger than before. This class are all necessarily enrolled, for the reason suggested before, that the enrolling officer had no power to pass upon the question of alienage. 3d. In some portions of the city, as in other places, there are large manufacturing establishments and other branches of busi- ness carried on, employing many men, and it is fair to presume that many of these employees, residents of other districts, have been enrolled at the place of their work and perhaps also at their residence ; and this for the reason that the oificer could not, with the means at his command, satisfactorily determine the proper place of enrolment, and the individual perhaps has "winked " if not connived at an enrolment in the wrong rather than in the right district, for the obvious reason that a draft in the former would not compel him to service. One fact should be stated in this connection, which was dis- closed by the examination of one of the provost marshals in the city of New York, exemplifying very strongly the difficulties in the way of a correct enrolment in thff view of that officer. In order to " correct " the enrolment of his district after the draft of 1863, he resorted to the election poll lists of his district and transferred over 5,000 names from such lists to the enrol- ment lists without inquiry as to age or condition. Of course a faithful officer would not have taken this step had there been any mode or means at his command in or by which an accurate enrol- mient could have been made. The time allowed for making the enrolment, while it was ample No 96.] 9 for the mere collection of names, was entirely too limited for such inquiries and investigations as might have been made the better to enable the officers to exercise the very restricted discretionary powers vested in them as to who were the proper subjects of the enrolment. The law itself, as well as the orders issued by the War Department for its execulion, and of which no complaint is made, as they were entirely proper in the emergency, necessarily compelled an excessive enrolment, that is the enrolment of aliens, the ph_y.sical]y incompetent, and other exempts, and did not and could not effectually guard against the enrolment of pon-residents and those not within the proper ages, or other errors and imper- fections, and the consequences of these defects in the system (if defects they are) are of course more serious and more apparent in cities than in the country. The commission, by way of testing the regularity and correct- ness of the enrolment of the State of New York, instituted a comparison between it and that of the other States. They ascer- tained the whole number within the ages and description of those composing the "first class" of the "national forces," under the " conscription act," in each State, by an estimate and calculation based upon the census of 1860, and upon the principle adopted by the census bureau at Washington. Perfect accuracy is not claimed for this estimate, but it approximates sufficiently near the truth for the purpose for which it is used, and no injustice is done to any State b^ any comparison based upon it. The com- mission then ascertained the percentage actually enrolled, of the number thus estimated belonging to the "first class," in each State, and in each district of the State of New York. The tables annexed, marked "A" and " B," give the result of this comparison. The descrepancies cannot, in the judgment of the commission, be explained upon an}- theory which has been sug- gested. The variances are entirely disproportioned, and in some instances, in direct opposition to the census exhibit of the rela- tive proportion of males and females, as well as of the males within the military ages in the several States. The lowest enrolments are in Delaware, Rhode Island and Ver- mont, while the largest is in New York, and they range from 575 in Delaware, to 1,350 in one district in New York city, to each thousand of the " first class " of the males estimated as above. The average enrolment to the thousand, in the State of New [Assem. No. 96.] 2 10 [Assembly York, is 818, and in Vermont 614, and in all the States exclusive of New York, 721, and including New York, 731. The average enrolment to the thousand, in all the New England States, is 637 ; in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, 764, and in Michigan, Illi- nois and Indiana, 767. The result of this grouping of the seve- ral States as well as a reference to the comparative enrolment in each State, shows conclusively that there has been no uniformity in the enrolment in the several States, or even in the different districts of the same State. If the same proportion of those estimated as above belonging to the first class, had been enrolled in New York as the average enrolment in the other States, the enrolment in New York would have been 380,822, instead of 427,469. Most of this excess is in the cities of New York and Brooklyn. Other things being equal, that is, there being nothing in the character of the population of New York to cause it to differ from the other States and districts, we should expect to find the enrolment of so large a city and State about on an aver- age with the other States ; that the enrolment would be a medium or mean between the two extremes, and not the most extreme. Nothing will be found in the character of the population to account for the difference that actually exists. In the city as well as in the entire State, the females exceed the males in num- ber. In New York city it is true that there is a greater propor- tion of males within the military ages than in some other dis- tricts, but this is more than compensated by the larger number of aliens and other exempts found in the city. So that there is nothing in the character of the population of the city or State of New York to call for a larger enrolment than is made in the other States. The result of the draft was resorted to as another test of the enrolment, it being supposed that if the enrolment was uniform and equal in the several States and districts the result of the draft would be substantially the same in all. Upon investigation it was found that in the districts where the enrolment was the largest, and especially in those districts where, for the reasons suggested, if anywhere an excessive enrolment might be looked for, the results of the draft were the least favor- able to the government. The fewest men were obtained and the greatest number failed to report or have since been found. The inference is that many of those enrolled and drafted were non- residents or had no existence at all, or for some other reason No. 96.] 11 ■were improperly placed upon the enrolment. The consequence is that the government is the loser by an excessive or defective enrolment in this, that it does not get the men wanted or expected, from any draft from it. A table annexed, marked "C," shows the results of the draft in several of the States and districts and exemplifies the truth of the suggestions. The commission, after a full investigation, and in view of all the facts elicited, are unanimously of the opinion that the enrol- ment in the State of New York is imperfect and erroneous, exces- sive in some districts, and possibly too small in others, and certainly excessive in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, and especially as compared with other States, and cannot be relied upon as a just and equitable basis for the assignment of the quota of the State of New York, or among tlie several districts thereof. Justice to the enrolling officers and agents requires that it should be distinctly stated, that their fidelity or integrity is by no means impeached by any inaccuracies that may exist in the enrolment. They were the necessary result of the execution of the law under the circumstances, and with the means at the command of the officers, and it is not perceived how, they could have been avoided. 2d. The second subject of enquiry was, whether, and if so, by what means, and in what manner, the enrolment could be cor- rected, so as to make it a just and proper basis for the assign- ment of quotas. A new enrolment was of course out of the question, and could one have been made, it is not perceived how the difficulties before encountered could have been overcome, or the mistakes and errors of the first enrolment avoided. The resort to the poll lists was an attempt by an experienced officer, familiar with the enrolment from the first, to " correct" the enrol- ment in his district. The same causes of error and imperfection still exist and are at work, and would undoubtedly produce the same results. The difficulty in the first enrolment was not in the enrolling agents, but in the system, and means, and appli- ances at the command of the agents. The commission was unable to devise any process or means to correct the enrolment, and make it what it should be, as a reli- able and satisfactory basis for the adjustment of the quotas. Whatever might be done in this direction would necessarily be by estimates and calculations, and these would proceed upon some assumed data, so that there would be nothing reliable in 12 [Assembly any result that should be attained. At best, the estimate would be the result of a guess, or proceed upon some arbitrary rule which it might be supposed would equalize the enrolment of the State of New York with that of the other States. But the result would not inspire any confidence as to its correctness, either absolutely or comparatively. If the New York enrolment should be made to conform to the average of the other States, to wit: 721 to each 1,000 of the "first class," it would be the result of a rule adopted for convenience, and without foundation in reason or principle. Such a correction would leave the enrol- ment and quota of Now York larger than that of the New Eng- land States, and would make it smaller than that of Pennsylvania and some of the Western States, with nothing in the character of the population to justify the discrimination. The. same re- marks will apply with like force to any other plan or process for equalizing or "correcting" the enrolment of New York by esti- mates and calculations. The commission was therefore unable to correct the enrolment and make it right, or substantially or comparatively so, and as the quota assigned upon an enrolment imperfect and erroneous, is necessarily erroneous, and may be unjust, they were compelled to resort to some other means to correct it. The facts and figures show conclusively that the enrolments of the cities of New York and Brooklyn are excessive, and the com- mission are of the opinion that any enrolment made by faithful agents, with the present limitations upon their power and discre- tion, and with their present helps and means, must be excessive, and cannot constitute a proper basis for apportionment of men to be furnished upon a call for volunteers. The quota assigned to the city and State of New York, under the call of October 11, 1863, being therefore excessive, the next enquiry was, in what way the error could be corrected and the quota made right. Three methods were suggested : . 1st. To adjust it upon the basis and in proportion to the entire male population. 2d. Upon the basis and in proportion to the male population between the ages of 20 and 45, and 3d. Upon the basis and in proportion to the entire population. The first two methods were rejected and the third adopted, for the following reasons among others : 1. It was less favorable to the city and State of New York than either of the other two, and yet, while it was so, it was a No. 96.] 13 a rule of which the State could not complain, as it was a rule by which other benefits and burthens are distributed among the States. 2. A call for volunteers is, in one sense, a tax upon the States and communities. Large bounties have to be paid to obtain the men, and States and communities act upon this established fact, and by tax compel each man to contribute his share, so that the burthen falls as directly upon property as if Congress had laid a direct tax for the same purpose. In this aspect repre- sentative population is a constitutional basis for the apportion, ment of this burthen. In all the acts of Congress, thus far passed upon the subject of raising volunteers by calls upon the several States, population has been made the basis of the apportionment. Acts of July 22, 1861, July 25, 1861, and July 17, 1862, are explicit on the subject. These acts are not repealed and still apply to any calls made under them, and whether they should govern the call of October 17, 1863, is not for the commission to decide. They are only referred to as expressions of the judgment of the Legisla- ture of the proper basis for a call for volunteers, when no other rule is prescribed. • 4. While taking either of the other methods, the results might be varied in some of the States, the method adopted will, it is thought, place the burthen where it can best be borne as a tax, to some extent, on property, and {produce no hardship anywhere. Without questioning or calling in question the construction of the conscription act, in the orders and calls made under it, the commission in view of the fact that the enrolment is clearly and confessedly inaccurate and imperfect, (and in the city of New York excessive) are unanimously of the opinion that the popula- tion constitute the only safe and proper basis for the assignment of quotas and the apportionment of men to be furnished by the State of New York upon a call for volunteers, and while no other basis than the enrolment is recommended in any draft that may be ordered, the commission are unanimously of the opinion and recommend that in any case, if a State or district will and do furnish their just share and proportion of men required under any call or order for a draft, in proportion to population, such State or district should be held to have fully complied with the call and be relieved from the draft. The commission fully believe that in no other way can justice 14 (Assembly be done or satisfaction given, and that by any other procedure the calls and drafts will be regarded as oppressive, and become odious. Upon the basis suggested, which is commended by its equity and fairness, and is believed not to be opposed to law, there can be no doubt that every call for men will everywhere be responded to cheerfully and heartily and neither men nor money for the suppression of the rebellion and restoration of the union in its integrity, be withheld or given grudgingly or stintedly. Nothing but an appearance of wrong can create an opposition in the popular heart and mind, to any demand of the Govern- ment for aid in this the time of its great struggle. In conclusion, the commissioners are of opinion, and so report, that the quota assigned to the State of New York and the quotas assigned to the several districts of the cities of New York and Brooklyn are erroneous and excessive, and should be reduced. That the just and fair quota of the State of New York, under the call for 300,000 men, in October, 18G3, is 52,858, and that the State should not, under that call, be required to furnish a greater number of men as volunteers. The commission has prepared a table vvhich is annexed to and makes a part of this report, and is liarked " D " in which the proper quota above stated is apportioned among the several dis- tricts of the State of New York, and they report that said quotas, so apportioned to the several districts, are, in their opinion, the just and equitable quotas for the said districts respectively, and they unanimously recommend the adoption of this " table of cor- rected quotas " in lieu and correction of the assignment of quotas heretofore made by the War Department, regarding the call as for volunteers. All which is repectfully submitted. Dated New York, Feh. 16, 1864. (Signed,) W. F. ALLEN, JOHN LOVE, CHAUNCEY SMITH. To Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. ko. 96.] t5 TABLE A, Showing the ratio of enrolled men in the first class of the national forces in the several States. STATES. Total males. 20 to 35. Total males, 35 to 45. First class of national forces. No. enrolled in 1st class Ratio. Connecticut . . . . Delaware Illinois Indiana Iowa Maine Massachusetts . . Michigan Minnesota New Hampshire . New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania. . . . Khode Island . . , Vermont Wisconsin 68,006 13,271 236,572 164,776 84,525 72,908 157,532 100,412 25,960 37,407 82,842 482,715 276,098 340,100 21,868 35,471 93,624 28,327 5,751 98,798 67,917 39,020 34,070 77,032 45,493 17,215 18,484 39,747 239,543 124,259 159,776 10,589 17,635 49,535 2,284,087 1,073,191 Batio excluding New York. 62,727 14,229 253,038 176,095 91,028 78,586 170,370 107,994 28,829 40,488 88,767 522,638 296,807 366,729 23,632 38,410 101,880 38,456 8,181 197,737 134,163 63,082 53,676 107,095 79,985 20,805 26,674 66,842 427,469 207,806 270,925 14,403 23,568 74,566 2,462,247 1,816,433 .61S .675 .781 .762 .693 .683 .629 .740 .721 .669 .763 .818 .700 .739 .610 .614 .733 .737 .721 N. B. — The first class is made up by adding to the number of men between the ages of 20 and 36, one-sixth of those between 35 and 46. 16 [Assembly TABLE B, Showing the ratio of enrolled men in the "first class " of the national forces in the several districts of JVew York. Districts. Total males, Total maleSj First class of No. of men first Ratio. 20 to 35. 35 to 45. * National Forces. class enrolled. No.l.... 14,906 7,822 16,210 11,812 729 2 21,483 16,586 30,557 17,703 23,447 18,013 25,212 13,359 12,558 1,101 3. .. 898 4 1,159 5 853 6. .. 1,350 ■7 918 8 1,068 9. .. 803 10.... 18,334 7,839 19,640 639 11-... 11,391 5,635 12,330 10,455 848 12 12,948 6,659 14,088 10,979 782 13.-.. 12,975 6,445 14,049 10,764 766 14.... 17,412 8,846 18,886 13,987 741 15..-. 16,202 7,928 17,523 12,602 719 16.... 10,716 5,020 11,553 7,965 689 17.... 12,994 5,582 13,924 9,843 *?07 18.... 15,234 7,525 16,488 12,305 746, 19 15,779 7,674 17,058 12,690 744 20.... 16,669 7,927 17,990 13,402 745 21 11,852 6,211 12,887 9,190 713 22.... 14,067 6,920 15,220 11,093 729 23.... 14,176 7,054 15,351 11,195 729 24 16,269 8,068 17,613 12,063 685 25 12,908 6,168 13,936 10,435 749 26 13,807 6,782 14,937 11,260 754 27-... 16,343 8,006 17,677 12,850 727 28.... 15,512 7,799 16,772 11,637 694 29..-- 13,473 6,648 14,581 9,332 640 30.... 16,205 9,038 17,711 13,195 745 31.--. 12,645 6,138 13,668 9,497 693 No. 96.] 17 TABLE C, Showing the ratio of men held to service, of those drafted in 1863, iti the several States, and in the ■gietropolitan and country districts of J\''ew York. Number Number States. drafted. held to service. Ratio. Maine 16,089 4,641 .288 New Hampshire 8,004 3,109 .388 Vermont 7,071 2,844 .402 Massachusetts 32,114 6,303 .196 Ehode Island 4,271 1,233 ' .289 Connecticut 11,540 3,950 .341 New York 100,164 24,569 .245 Pennsylvania 82,317 27,337 .337 Delaware 2,454 845 .344* Maryland 8,018 863 .108 District of Columbia 5,198 1,183 .204 Michigan 6,426 2,573 .400 Wisconsin 15,290 4,883 .319 299,556 84,719 .283 Districts 2 to 9, inclusive of New York 26,278 3,502 .133 22 districts of New York, ex- ■clusive of above 73,886 21,067 .285 [Assem. No. 96.] 18 [Assembly TABLE D, Showing the quota of the several districts of the State of JYew York, of 300,000 men, assigned on the basis of the total population by the census of 1860. District. Population. Quota. 1 126,142 1,718 2 ----- 146,950 2,002 3 ! -. 132,172 1,800 4.. 134,766 1,83G 5 - 129,983 1,771 6 117,148 1,596 7 132,524 1,805 8 - 173,991 2,370 9 125,241 1,708 10 - 135,991 1,858 11. - 96.197 1,310 12 112,113 1,527 ♦13 -■ 108,311 1,475 14 148,388 2,021 15 132,227 1,801 16 -. - 95,383 1,299 17 - -.. 114,524 1,560 18 ^ 129,778 1,768 19 133,556 1,819 20 - 138,960 1,893 21 105,201 1,433 22 - 119,418 1,627 23 116,980 1,568 24 131,664 1,793 25 104,399 1,422 26 - - - 114,902 1,565 27 - -" -.. 135,487 1,845 28 129,365 1,762 29 114,553 1,560 30 141,971 1,934 31 102,304 1,419 ^BRfiRY OF CONGRESS 013 709 182 3 ^ ^ A LIBRARY OF CONGRESS II II III iir II III II! 1 11 013 709 182 3 DeRtTUlTte*