46,052 Present for duty .....................

26,242 The department and army commanders had to maintain strong garrisons in their respective departments, and also to guard their respective lines of supply.

I therefore, in my mind, aimed to prepare out of these three armies, by the 1st of May, 1864, a compact army for active operations in Georgia, of about the following numbers: Army of the Cumberland................

50,000 Army of the Tennessee.................

35,000 Army of the Ohio .....................