Summary: ''What was the amount of the Confederate force under command of Lee?'' it may be asked. The present writer is unable to state this number with any thing like exactness. The official record, if in existence, is not accessible, and the matter must be left to conjecture. It is tolerably certain, however, that, even after the arrival of Jackson, the army numbered less than seventy-five thousand. Officers of high rank and character state the whole force to have been sixty or seventy thousand only.It will thus be seen that the Federal army was larger than the Confederate but this was comparatively an unimportant fact. The event was decided rather by generalship than the numbers of the combatants.
