Joseph Holt to Edwin M. Stanton, March 28, 1866

Secretary of War:

Sir : I have the honor to submit the following summary exhibit in regard to the volunteer troops of the Army of the United States, viz:

In service J an. 9, 1866 ct. . . . . . . . .

In service Mar. 10, 1866 . . . . . .

Ordered mustered out, since Ja.n. 9 _ _

Ordered mustered out since Mar. 10 . . .

Total reductions made and ordered since Jan. 9 …………….

a This number is that recently communicated to the House of Representatives in answer to a reso¬ lution dated January 5, 1866.

The musters out ordered will be mostly completed by May 1 (the work will be well advanced by April 10), and there will then be left in service 17,065 white volunteers and 30,217 colored; total, 47,282. It is proper to add that the Seventeenth Regiment U. S. Infantry has been ordered to Texas, and upon its arrival Major-General Sherida#

* Since the preparation of this statement 4 have been added — 2 from Maine, 1 from the District of Columbia, and 1 from Ohio — making a total of 1,296.

■ has been instructed to muster out all additional white volunteers in I that department (there are now in service there 3,681 white, present ^ and absent) that he can spare. This contemplated reduction will be

in addition to that referred to in the summary, i I am, sir,

very respectfully, your obedient servant, Assistant Adjutant-General.