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Hereafter, under the column of 'Effective Total' in the reports from this army, extra-duty men and men in arrest will not be included. The 'Effective Total' must include only the fighting field force those who are carried into the field of battle with fire-arms in their hands. By command of General Bragg. GEORGE WM. BRENT, Assistant Adjutant-General."
Davis, he says, "the increase by the arrival of extra-duty men and convalescents, etc., is about 5000, and more are coming in daily. The Confederate conscription included the whole able-bodied population, and details as for extra duty were the means by which physicians, clergymen, civilian office-holders, etc., were exempted from service in the army.
The column "Effective Total" in these returns included only enlisted men carrying arms and actually in the line of battle. It excluded all officers, the non-commissioned staff, extra-duty men, the sick in hospital, and those in arrest. "HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF TENNESSEE, TULLAHOMA, January 29, 1863.
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