NOTE

Table showing the Nationality and Average Measurements of 346,744
Federal Soldiers examined for Military Service after March 6, 1863. 
                                                 Chest at
                                       Height Inspiration. 
                             Number ft. in. in.

United States 237,391 5 7.40 35.61
   (69 per cent.)
Germany 35,935 5 5.54 35.88
Ireland 32,473 5 5.54 35.24
Canada 15,507 5 5.51 35.42
England 11,479 5 6.02 35.41
France 2,630 5 5.81 35.29
Scotland 2,127 5 6.13 35.97
Other nationalities,
  including Wales and 9,202 —­ —­
  five British Colonies -------
                             346,744

Report of the Provost Marshal General, 1866, page 698.

The Roll of the 35th Massachusetts, which may be taken as a typical Northern regiment, shows clearly enough at what period the great influx of foreigners took place.  Of 104 officers the names of all but four—­and these four joined in 1864—­are pure English.  Of the 964 rank and file of which the regiment was originally composed, only 50 bore foreign names.  In 1864, however, 495 recruits were received, and of these over 400 were German immigrants.—­History of the 35th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-65.

CHAPTER 2.22.  WINTER QUARTERS.

1863.

During the long interval which intervened between the battle of Fredericksburg and the next campaign, Jackson employed himself in preparing the reports of his battles, which had been called for by the Commander-in-Chief.  They were not compiled in their entirety by his own hand.  He was no novice at literary composition, and his pen, as his letter-book shows, was not that of an unready writer.  He had a good command of language, and that power of clear and concise expression which every officer in command of a large force, a position naturally entailing a large amount of confidential correspondence, must necessarily possess.  But the task now set him was one of no ordinary magnitude.  Since the battle of Kernstown, the report of which had been furnished in April 1862, the time had been too fully occupied to admit of the crowded events being placed on record, and more than one-half of the division, brigade, and regimental commanders who had been engaged in the operations of the period had been killed.  Nor, even now, did his duties permit him the necessary leisure to complete the work without assistance.  On his requisition, therefore, Colonel Charles Faulkner, who had been United States Minister to France before the war, was attached to his staff for the purpose