Saphroneth
Lt. Colonel
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2017
The point I'm trying to make is that the numbers are really lopsided.No that is way D.H.Hill's forces came in. They with the 10,000 to 20,000 men in NC and SC will defend the coast.
Livermore's estimate of total Confederate mobilization, including militias and measured in Present (not PFD or Effectives) was 425,000 all told in April:
Army of Northern Virginia: 110,000
Longstreet’s I Corps
Smith’s II Corps
Stuart’s Cavalry Division
Western Virginia
Jackson’s Division: 8,397 (ex- Army of the Northwest)
Ewell’s Division: 8,500 (Detached from Army of Northern Virginia)
Heth’s Brigade: 3,000 (Lewisburg, VA)
Eastern Virginia
Huger’s Corps: 15,143 (Norfolk, VA)
Western Theatre
Army of the Mississippi: 93,883
Polk’s I Corps: (ex- Army of Central Kentucky, one Division of AoCK was the ex Army of Kanawha)
Bragg’s II Corps: (ex- Army of Mobile and Army of Pensacola)
Hardee’s III Corps:
Breckinridge’s Reserves (3 Brigades)
3 Brigades of Cavalry
Smith’s Corps (Army of Eastern Tennessee): 16,199
Army of the West: 34,045 (Missouri State Guard (Militia) and McCulloch’s Division)
Pillow’s Brigade: 3,847 (Fort Pillow, TN)
Trans-Mississippi Theatre
Pike’s Division: 9,565 (Indian Territory)
Sibley’s Brigade: 3,700 (“Army of New Mexico” – retreating into Texas)
Total: 306,279
State Forces, Garrisons and Militia
North Carolina: 26,433
South Carolina: 27,000 (est. based on splitting SC and GA returns pro rata)
Georgia: 13,000
Missouri and Arkansas: 28,000 (Jan 62)
Middle and East Florida: 4,393
Trans-Mississippi District: 20,000
Mississippi: ?
Louisiana: ?
Alabama: ?
Total: 118,826
Grand Total: 425,105
Your numbers don't include anyone in the Trans-Mississippi District, by the way, which sort of cancels out any benefit from Missouri.
To get 325,000 men in the Western Theatre, even AP, then the total strength of North Carolina plus South Carolina plus the field army in Northern Virginia and the defenders of Norfolk - and anyone in the Valley - has to total only about 100,000 AP.
This, frankly, is not enough. Either you can't get states like NC and SC to give up all their militia (and so the AoNV is functionally a division or so) or you can but the result is that Raleigh, Norfolk and Charleston are so poorly defended that a single division can snap them up.