Percentage of Southern born officers who stayed in the Union Army.

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It is my understanding that most Southern born officers in the US Army remained loyal Union soldiers. Does anyone have the percentage?
 
It is my understanding that most Southern born officers in the US Army remained loyal Union soldiers. Does anyone have the percentage?
I just saw it somewhere, I'll see if I can find it. I don't think it was a majority, but it was a larger percentage than I imagined.
 
Perhaps an excerpt from this booklet The Regular Army Before the Civil War by Clayton R. Newell might be of assistance.
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David

Pages 51-52
The Army on the Eve of War By December 1860, the Army’s authorized strength totaled about 18,000 officers and men, but only 16,367 were on the rolls. Of these, 1,108 were commissioned officers, four were general officers (one major general who served as the commanding general and three brigadier generals), and the rest were either line officers assigned to the regiments or staff officers serving in the War Department. There were 361 staff officers assigned to the nine bureaus and departments, all of which were headed by colonels, although several held staff brevets of brigadier general. The bureau chiefs were men of long service, averaging sixty-four years of age, with six over seventy. The 743 line officers served in the regiments: 351 in the infantry, 210 in the artillery, and 182 in the mounted units. As with the bureau chiefs in the War Department, the nineteen regimental colonels were mostly old men set in their ways. They ranged in age from forty-two to eighty, the average being sixty-three. The officers in each regimental headquarters consisted of a colonel, a lieutenant colonel, two majors, an adjutant, and a quartermaster. The adjutant and quartermaster were lieutenants 51 detailed from the line companies except in the mounted regiments which were authorized additional lieutenants for the headquarters. The enlisted staff included a sergeant major, a quartermaster sergeant, and a chief musician. Infantry and artillery regiments were each authorized twenty musicians while mounted regiments had two chief buglers. Because Congress in 1850 had authorized units in the West to receive more men than those in the East, regimental strength could vary significantly. Theoretically a regiment in the West could have as many as nine hundred soldiers, but no regiment ever reached that size. With recruitment and desertion being perennial problems, a typical regiment averaged 300 to 400 enlisted men with 1 or 2 officers and 30 to 40 men in each company. With ten infantry and five mounted regiments of ten companies each (the 8th Infantry had only nine) and four artillery regiments of twelve companies each, there were a total of 197 line, or combat, companies in the United States Army on the eve of the Civil War. Of these, only eighteen, all artillery, were stationed east of the Mississippi River. As Southern states started to secede from the Union in the winter of 1860–1861 following Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the presidential election, secessionists seized control of most Federal arsenals and forts in the South but allowed the officers and men to move north. One significant exception was the island bastion of Fort Sumter located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. President Lincoln’s refusal to surrender the fort and the subsequent secessionist attack on it marked the formal outbreak of the Civil War. The regular regiments responded well to the crisis. They assembled their far-flung detachments, marched east to join the fight, and, although miniscule in number compared with the more than seventeen hundred state volunteer regiments that served in the Union Army during the war, acquitted themselves well.
But while the enlisted ranks remained solidly loyal, the Regular Army officer corps was more fractured. Capt. Charles Morton’s description of the situation facing the officers in Regiment of Mounted Riflemen in late 1860 typified the dilemma of the officer corps: “One-third of our people had plunged into secession believing it right, another third declaring coercion wrong, but the other third taking the stand that saved the Union.” Some of the officers “imbibed the epidemic political heresy of ‘States’ Rights,’ and at no little sacrifice, cast their lot with the seceded States, breaking
close, tender and cherished ties of comradeship, and severing their connection with a service they revered and honored.” Among those who “cast their lot” with the Confederacy were 168 West Point graduates. Of the other graduates in the Army, 556 remained loyal to the Union while 26 took no active part in the war. About 20 percent of the officer corps as a whole resigned from active service in 1861 to join the Confederate forces. As for those U.S. Military Academy graduates who had left the Army like Grant, Sherman, and Bragg, nearly 200 returned to don a uniform—92 wore Confederate gray and 102 put on the blue of the Union Army. Regardless of which side they chose, Regular Army officers of the antebellum Army would have a disproportionate effect on the war. By the end of the war, 217 of the 583 men who had achieved general officer rank in the Federal Army were West Point graduates. One hundred forty-six of the Confederacy’s 425 general officers were West Point graduates. But their impact went beyond that. According to Civil War historian T. Harry Williams, “Of the sixty biggest battles, West Point graduates commanded both armies fifty-five, and in the remaining five a West Pointer commanded one of the opposing armies.” Leavened on the frontier and in Mexico, the men of the antebellum officer corps would Some Army installations, like Fort Moultrie, Charleston, South Carolina, were located in states that began seceding from the Union.
https://history.army.mil/html/books/075/75-1/CMH_Pub_75-1.pdf
 
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