Adjutant and Inspector General Reports
1865 Report
RESULTS.
The present standing of the State, under the call of December 19, 1864, is as follows:
| Quota, as assessed December 31, 1864, | 1196. | ||
| Number of men furnished. | |||
| Enlistments, from December 31, 1864, to September 30, 1865. | 1566 | ||
| Surplus credits of towns, December 31, 1864, in excess of quota of such towns under call of December 19, 1864, | 327 | ||
| Total furnished | 1893 | ||
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| Surplus credit of the State over all calls from April 1861, to Sept. 30, 1865, | 697 | ||
| The results for the year ending September 30, 1865, are as follows:__ | |||
| VOLUNTEER RECRUITS. | |||
| For one year | 989 | For Army | 1223 |
| For two years | 28 | For Navy | 423 |
| For three years | 617 | ||
| For four years | 12 | ||
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| 1646 | 1646 | ||
| SUBSTITUTES. | |||
| For enrolled men | 175 | For Army | 96 |
| For drafted men | 11 | For Navy | 90 |
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| 186 | 186 | ||
| DRAFTED MEN. | |||
| Drafted men held to personal service | 13 | ||
| RECAPITULATION. | |||
| Total Volunteers furnished | 1646 | ||
| Total Substitutes furnished | 186 | ||
| Total Drafted men held to service | 13 | ||
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| Total furnished during the year | 1845 | ||
The 1223 Volunteers enlisted for the army, as above mentioned, were distributed as follows:
| First | Regiment | Cavalry | Vermont | Vols. | 48 |
| Second | " | Infantry | " | " | 32 |
| Third | " | " | " | " | 32 |
| Fourth | " | " | " | " | 21 |
| Fifth | " | " | " | " | 54 |
| Sixth | " | " | " | " | 54 |
| Seventh | " | " | " | " | 214 |
| Eighth | " | " | " | " | 217 |
| Tenth | " | " | " | " | 44 |
| Eleventh | " | 1st Reg. Heavy Art. | " | 5 | |
| Seventeenth Infantry | " | 66 | |||
| Second Battery Light Artillery | " | 1 | |||
| Third | " | " | " | " | 12 |
| First and Second Co's. Frontier Cav. | " | 206 | |||
| Fifty-fourth Reg. Inf. Mass. Vols. (Colored) | 10 | ||||
| First Army Corps (Hancock's) | 136 | ||||
| U. S. Regular Army | 40 | ||||
| Veteran Reserve Corps | 9 | ||||
| Unassigned | 4 | ||||
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| Total | 1223 | ||||
On the thirty-first of December, 1864, the War Department announced that the wants of the service did not then require, except in special cases to be designated, the enlistment of recruits for Heavy Artillery, Light Artillery, or Cavalry, and Provost Marshals were instructed to enlist recruits only for the Infantry service. In consequence of this order, no recruits were enlisted, subsequent to that date, for the Second and Third Batteries Light Artillery, the Eleventh Regiment (First Regiment Heavy Artillery), or the first Regiment of Cavalry from this State.
The whole number of men furnished during the war is as follows:__
| I. VOLUNTEER RECRUITS. | ||
| Periods of Service | No. of Men | |
| For three months | 782 | |
| For nine months | 4833 | |
| For one year | 2747 | |
| For two years | 29 | |
| For three years | 22,352 | |
| For four years | 12 | |
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| Total number of Volunteers | 30,755 | |
| Organizations | ||
| One regiment infantry, three months | 782 | |
| Five regiments infantry, nine months | 4833 | |
| Ten regiments infantry, three years | 17,308 | |
| One regiment cavalry, three years | 2552 | |
| One regiment heavy art., three years | 2403 | |
| Three batteries light art., three years | 903 | |
| Three co's. sharp shooters, three years | 624 | |
| One Brigade Band | 21 | |
| Two companies frontier cavalry, one year | 206 | |
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| Aggregate number for Vt. organizations | 29,632 | |
| U. S. Regular Army | 101 | |
| U. S. Navy and Marine Corps | 570 | |
| First Army Corps (Hancock's) | 136 | |
| U.S. Colored troops (various regts.) | 133 | |
| 54th Regt. Mass. Vols. (colored) | 73 | |
| First Bat. Veteran Reserve Corps | 85 | |
| Unassigned (general service) | 25 | |
| Aggregate No. for other than Vt. organizations | 1123 | |
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| Total number of Volunteers | 30,755 | |
| II. Drafted Men and Substitutes | ||
| Drafted and held to service under draft of 1863, | 2825 | |
| Drafted and held to service in deficient sub-districts from Jan. 1, 1864, to Sept. 30, 1865 | 159 | |
| Substitutes for enrolled men liable to draft, | 816 | |
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| Total drafted men and substitutes. | 3800 | |
| RECAPITULATION. | ||
| Total number of volunteers furnished. | 30,755 | |
| Total number of drafted men and substitutes furnished | 3,800 | |
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| Total number of men furnished | 34,555 | |
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