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in battle and by dis-ease. Bnt amongthese 89,000 for duty|on the 10th of Julywere included all theextra duty men em-ployed as teamsters,and in the various ad-ministrative services,and, with the furtherdeductions necessaryfor camp guards,guards of communi-cations, depots andtrains, flank detach-ments, etc., reducedthe numbers actuallyavailable for offensivebattle to not morethan [60,000?]

A few days sufficedto give the men thenecessary rest, andto renew the sup-plies exhausted onthe march across the

^ According to General Mc-Clellan ’s “ Tri-montlily Re-turn,” dated July 10, 1862(“Official Records,” Vol.XI., Pt. III., p. 312), hewould appear to be mis-taken, above, in saying thatthe “89,000 for duty” in-cluded “all the extra dutymen,” for in the return heclassifies (excluding theforces under Dix) 88,435as “present for duty, equip-ped,” at Harrison’s Landing,and in the next column heaccounts for 106,466 as the“ aggregate present.” Obvi-ously there is no meaning inthe return if the 88,435“present for duty, equip-ped,” did not exclude the18,021 (supposably extraduty men like teamsters,etc.) which made the differ-ence between the “presentfor duty, equipped,” and the106,466 “aggregate pres-ent.”— Editors.