christof139
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Because I cant resist to correct you.
There is no accurate means of determining just how many individuals served in the armed forces of either the Federal or Confederate armies. Many educated estimates utilizing official and unofficial figures are available. The figures herein accepted are the result of an extensive study of these estimates.
Total enlistments in the Federal forces are officially put at 2,778,304, including, in the Army, 2,489,836 whites, 178,975 Negroes, 3530 Indians, and 105,963 in the Navy and Marines. Some scholars do not even accept these figures as authoritative and it must be borne in mind that many thousands who are included enlisted more than once. Also included are troops whose period of service varied from a few days to the duration. The important question is how many individuals served in the armed forces. Estimates run from 1,550,OO0 to 2,200,000 Federals. Probably something over 2,000,000 would be as accurate a figure as possible on total individuals in the Federal armed forces.
For the Confederates, figures are even more in dispute. Estimates of total Confederate enlistments run from 600,000 to 1,400,000. Many Confederate scholars count 6oo,oco total individuals. After considering the numerous surveys made, perhaps 750,000 individuals would be reasonably close. Thus it can be said that Federals, counting Negro troops, outnumbered the Confederates about three to one in number of individuals.
As to the navies, the Federals totaled 132,554 enlistments (105,963 credited to states, plus other sailors not so credited). For the Confederate Navy, in 1864 enlisted men totaled 3674, plus officers and marines, but no reliable totals are available.
Source: "The Civil War Day By Day" by E.B. Long
But this raw data does not break down as simple as you would like, Union units had 2 or 3 year enlistments. Souther units were for the duration.
This game does a good job of representing the fighting armies both sides had, and for this game we have to keep that in mind. The fighting army the south has in this game is pretty much the army it had historicly. The same cannot be said for the north. For arguements sake we can say half the northern camps are sending reinforcements to the half of the army not represented. So each northern camp gets 250 men, there now they can have as many as the north.
Art
In both the North and the South the majority of units that enlisted for the duration did not do so until late 1862 to 1863, and continued to do so through 1864 to 1865. Many Northern units enlisted for the duration during this time period.
In the South, enlisting and being forced to serve for the duration or another long term of service became mandatory in many age etc. classes due to the shortage of manpower. Initially Southern units were formed for time periods less than the duration, just as their Northern counterparts were. This info. is readily available in the OR, Livermore, etc., I do believe but maybe not as I can't remember exactly at the moment.
The North supplied more replacements to attrited units than the South did simply because the North had more and the South much less of an available manpower pool.
The South started forming official and officially titled 'Consolidated' units in 1862, and this is evidenced at murfreesboro, and at this time the North wasn't even consideing such a drastic measure because of its large manpower pool.
One reason some Northern Infantry units died on the vine, is that new regiments were being formed in the larger States even as the preceding and original units were being transported to the fronts, thus causing a lapse in readily available replacemnts for many of the existing units. however, even these exisiting units at one time or another received replacements, and many of these existing units disbanded at the end of their 2 or 3 year enlistment period, with those members that did reenlist going to new units or other pre-existing older units. The South could not afford the administrative time and lag to do this, and so kept exisiting units on the roles by consolidation of these existing units, conscripts, and fewer and fewer enlistments as the war progressed.
I just read a whole bunch of info. about this about a month ago, and this info. debunks the misnomer that the north reinforced older existing units less frequently than the South. When the Northern 2 and 3 year units reached the end of their nlistment time they eiterh didbanced, reenlisted to keep the original unit on the roles, or members of these disbanding units whose time of service had not yet expired ond reenlisted veterans and new recruits were simply assigned to other exisitng units of entirley new units.
At Antietam I believe it was, there was only one Northern regiment that was a Consilidated Regiment, two NY regiments I do believe, while the South had by means of necsessity temporarily and unofficially consolidated the regiments within the very small Brigades of the ANV numbering about 300 - 600 men each. In the West, the AoT had officially Consilidated Infantry regiments at the end of 1862 during the murfreesboro campaign, while the Northern XIV Corps (Dept. of the Ohio or Cumberland, I forget, with 3 Wings acting as Corps and the XIV Corps acting as an Army command) of Rosecrans had no such consolidated units.
Chris
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RE: Game-Balance Improvements for Upcoming Patch - 
I even had straggler units for each division or brigade, including stragglers on the field, not those arriving during the night. I think I had about 7,000 stragglers total to add to Lee's army for the morning of 9-18-62. Plus some more Cav. and Arty. I had the original TS full scenario of Antietam historically corrected concerning weapons, particularily Arty. pieces down to section level if necessary, and those known units with beligian rifles, etc. had them as Class 2 or 3 shoulder arms. Great and modified on the field sprites and troop icons in the control panel., with most Arty. types represented better in the icons. 
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