CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN. 701 extended to embrace this and other states south. The order, it seems, has been modified so as to include only Virginia aud Tennessee. I think it would be an act of wisdom to open this State to trade at once. I hope the Government will make known its policy as the organ of State Governments without delay. Affairs must necessarily be in a very unsettled state until that is done; the people are now in a mood to accept almost any thing which promises a definite settlement. What is to be done with the freedmen, is the question of all, and is the all-important question. It requires prompt and wise action to prevent the negro from becoming a huge elephant on our hands. If I am to govern this State, it is important for me to know it at once. If another is to be sent here, it can not be done too soon; for he will probably I shall be glad to hear from you freely when you undo the most that I shall have done. have time to write. I will send your message to Wilson at once. J. M. SCHOFIELD, Major General." I give this dispatch entire, to demonstrate how intermingled have become civil matters with the military, and how almost impossible it has become for an officer in authority to act a pure military part. There are no longer armed enemies in North Carolina, and a soldier can deal with no other sort. The marshals and sheriffs with their posses (of which the military may become a part) are the only proper officers to deal with civil criminals and marauders. But I will not be drawn out in a discussion of this subject, but instance the case to show how difficult is the task become to military officers, when men of the rank, education, experience, nerve, and good sense of General Schofield feel embarrassed by them. General Schofield, at Raleigh, has a well-appointed and well-disciplined command, is in telegraphic communication with the controlling parts of his department, and remote ones in the direction of Georgia, as well as with Washington, and has military possession of all strategic points. In like manner, General Gillmore is well situated in all respects, except as to rapid communication with the seat of the General Government. I leave him also with every man he ever asked for, and in full and quiet possession of every strategic point in his department; and General Wilson has in the very heart of Georgia the strongest, best appointed, and best equipped cavalry corps that ever fell under my command; and he has now, by my recent action, opened to him a source and route of supply by way of Savannah River that simplifies his military problem, so that I think I may with a clear conscience leave them and turn my attention once more to my special command, the army with which I have been associated through some of the most eventful scenes of this or any war. I hope and believe none of these Commanders will ever have reason to reproach me for any "orders" they may have received from me; and the President of the United States may be assured that all of them are in position, ready and willing to execute to the letter and in spirit any orders he may give. I shall henceforth cease to give them any orders at all, for the occasion that made them subordinate to me is past; and I shall confine my attention to the army composed of the Fifteenth and Seventeenth, and Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps, unless the commanding General of the armies. of the United States orders otherwise. At four P. M. of May 9th I reached Manchester, on the James River, opposite Richmond, and found that all the four corps had arrived from Raleigh, and were engaged in replenishing their wagons for the resumption of the march toward Alexandria. I have the honor to be your obedient servant, W. T. SHERMAN, Major General Commanding. General Jous A. RAWLINS, Chief of Staff, Washington, D. C. THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE REBELLION; STATEMENT SHOWING THE NUMBER OF MEN FURNISHED BY EACH STATE SINCE APRIL 1, 1861, IN THE DIFFERENT CALLS FOR MEN WHO WERE YEARS AS A STANDARD OF COMPUTATION. 1864....... Militia for 100 days mustered for 3 years......... Militia for 9 months. for 6 months...... . . .... years. months.......... 1862, by special authority for 3 Men furnished in May and June, 6,644 7,620 13,912 7,042 New Hampshire, 779 ... 8,339 6,390 1,736 6,967 Vermont,. 782 9,508 4,369 4,781 8,611 2,955 1,921 25 Massachusetts, 3,736 32,177 16,519 16,685 1,861 18 167 ... 103 21,413 18,876 6,809 6,990 Rhode Island, 3,147 6,286 2,742 2,050 | 3,686 2,032 2,590 4,626 141 1,829 3 71,715 56,595 492 9 771 23 31,605 30,827 11 92 29 534 9 35,216 29,052 1,533 $ 2,153 2 151,785 123,811 196 9,195 5,602 11,874 891.... 739 92 618.... 23,771 17,878 5,250 495 New York, 13,906 30,950 89,281 8,588 20 78,904 1,781 10,318 21 34 5 1,174 2 57270 50,514 75,733 41,153 5,610| New Jersey, 3,123 11,523 56,968 1,506 5,499 10,787 25,297 721 9,137 1,616 20,257 67 464,156 381,696 9,187 12,611 259 Pennsylvania, 20,175 85,160 30,591 32,215 3,708 55,369 45,617 7,675 Delaware, 775 1,826 2,508 1,799 10,882 510 433 2,573 1.603 1,558 9 3,697 6,501 1,075 3,162 155 29,511 55,785 198 26,744 294 3,267 44 366,326 267,558 Maryland, 9,355 15 3:6 5 11 3,586 13,651 10,303 1,615 7,350 11,501 West Virginia, 1,297 6,229 246 900 12,757 4,925 3,727 64 3,237 -330 1,094 49,731 40,692 1,148 3,988 30,857 District of Columbia, 4,720 1,726 28 1,795 1,167 4,883/ 202... 2,112 9 351 32,003 27,653 1,142 998 Ohio, 12,357 863 59 83,253 937 3-13 693 1.2 116 16,872 11,506 58,325 2,736 32,837 36,221 36,254 Indiana, 4,686 1,698 59,643 25,613 761 1,723 30,359 3,767 22.228 14,783 7,197 Illinois, . 4,820 81,952 17,733 597 4,625 21,721 641 926 317,133 237,976 58.689 20,736 213 2,259 195,147 152,2×3 32,179 Michigan,.. 781 23,5-46 21,351 11,368 13,492 555 1.375 25,835 17,650 355 1,620 258,217 212,694 20,047 7.697 Wisconsin, 5,983 817 25,499 6,192 14,472 958 6,775 15,469 10.059 2,134 41 1,014 90,119 80, 65 10,921 86 Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas, . 930 1,167 5,770 5,832 4,626 9,520 15 236 96,118 78,985 3,052 3,191 2,794 205 239 968 21,987 25,034 19,675 21,438 9,396 10,591 199 22,321 10,07) 3,901 4,062 60 168 772 28,324 15 22 75,860 68,182 3,284 3,889 9,733 5,129 29,966 6,443 7,782 1,235 14,430 3,16) 41 1,002 308,773 $6,192 4.785 9.409 650 6,953 2,936 169 30,137 1,986 7 5,105 78,540 70,3 5,371 2,593 441 29 3,989 3 319 6'23 36 170 8,098 |