Though I am not familier with the Elmore County changes, it was before the formation of Hale County (in honor of Col Stephen F. Hale, 11th Alabama) from Greene and Perry counties. However, I take the statistics quoted to be statewide, and county boundries would not really matter. It is this statistic which I had wished to examine, but has been already presented here, and perhaps should be seriously considered as close to accurate. Some limitations of these numbers would be those households which left the state after the war but before the census, in which familiy members had been casualties, or families moved into the state with the same. Given the economic circumstances in 1865-66, I don't think there was a mass movement either way, and these 1866 statistics should be as close to accurate as we are going to get. I have heard on this board that some counties did not included this in their taking of the census. What I have seen looks to be a standard form, which list heads of household, and does not name individual soldiers.

How do *these* numbers compare with quoted figures, from whatever source, of other former Confederate states?

We could (laboriously) go at it from the unit end, from regimental returns, but the oft-quoted 20% attrition in the Confederate records inserts inaccuracy in that method as well.

As I recall the column headings from the census, the 8,957 would be "Killed;" I am not sure if that is actually KIA(killed in action), or if it includes mortally wounded as well. I believe the 13,534 total come from a column headed "Died of Disease," so I am disinclined to consider mortally wounded in this number. The 2,629 "Disabled" column would be hard to say if this was for life, being only a year after the end of the war. This gives a total of 25,120 casualties, not including those wounded but made something close to a complete recovery.

How many soldiers did Alabama provide to the Confederate war effort? Seems like we have discussed that before. Was it 100,000?