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Show CHAP. VII. UNITED STATES MILITIA. 337 MILITIA FORCE OF THE UNITED STATES. General Abstract of the Militia Force of the United States, according to the latest Returns received at the Office of the Adjutant General. States and Territories. For the Year General Staff Field Officers, etc. Company Officers. Total commissioned Officers. Non-commis- Bioaed Officers, Musicians, Artificers, and Privates. Aggregate. Maine New Hampshire.... Massachusetts Vermont Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee Kentucky Ohio..: Michigan Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Missouri Arkansas Texas California ... Minnesota Oregon Washington Territory Nebraska Territory Kansas Territory... Territory of Utah... Territory of N. Mexico District of Columbia. Grand aggregate.. 1856 1854 1859 1843 1858 1858 1856 1852 1858 1827 1838 1858 1845 1856 1850 1845 1851 1859 1838 1840 1852 1858 1854 1832 1855 1855 1853 1859 1847 1857 1859 1853 1852 15 52 202 47 51 22 9 299 68 133 135 91 14 142 129 70 79 145 123 110 17 39 45 126 36 119 111 224 106 82 1,531 230 895 353 801 26 199 5,495 340 1,227 521 1,088 156 293 7,388 73,248 32,311 157,347 22,827 16,555 51,312 329,847 71 544 657 535 624 95 775 542 856 392 1,165 147 566 215 4 179 248 11 10 48 28 364 1,763 3,449 1,909 4,296 508 1,883 2,105 348 2,644 3,517 2,358 2,154 904 67 911 940 175 447 2,397 4,267 2,599 5,050 620 2,832 2,792 825 3,607 4,870 2,858 2,861 1,142 1,139 1,248 330 8,782 44,467 75,181 33,473 73,649 11,502 78,830 88,532 35,259 67,645 84,109 94,236 51,052 50,179 117,959 46,611 18,518 207,400 235 285 2,536 185 226 7,975 .|515 2,374!9,8841'38,687|51,460|1,876,342 73,552 33,538 157,868 23,915 16,711 51,605 337,235 81,984 350,000 9,229 46,864 150,000 79,448 36,072 78,699 12,122 76,662 91,324 36,084 71,252 88,979 279,809 97,094 53,913 257,420 51,321 118,047 47,750 19,766 207,730 23,972 2,821 8,201 3,070,987 manry second to none in the world: they had, however, among them crowds of frontiersmen accustomed to deal with the bear and the Indian, not with the antelope and the deer. The Texan Eangers in later times were a first-rate body of men for irregular purposes, not to be confounded with the militia, yet always put forward as a proof how superior to the "sweepings of cities," as the regular army was once called in the Senate, are the irregulars, who "never fire a random shot, never draw trigger-till their aim is sure," and are "here to-night and to-morrow are fifty miles off." But the true modern militia is pronounced by the best authorities |