Note 750 — Chapter XI · THE STATE (B) STATE AND HISTORY (continued 2)
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
On the side of the North, more than 1½ million men out of barely 20 million inhabitants.
[The total of men of military age in the North was 4,600,000, of whom 2,780,000 actually enlisted. The figure of 1,700,000 is a reduction to a three-year level—i.e., men who served throughout the war counting as 1⅓ each and men who served for one year as ⅓ each. The Southern states put into the field, on the same three-years’ basis, 900,000 out of 1,065,000 men of military age. (Dodge, Birds Eye View of our Civil War.)—Tr.]