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.
IV LEE RESOLVES TO ATTACK.
General Lee assumed command of the army on the 3d of June.

A week afterward, Jackson finished the great campaign of the Valley, by defeating Generals Fremont and Shields at Port Republic.
Such had been the important services performed by the famous "Stonewall Jackson," who was to become the "right arm" of Lee in the greater campaigns of the future.