I was checking out the commonly quoted "fact" that, of Union troops, the men from Kansas had the highest mortality rate. The linked Adjustatnt General's Report provides a mortality rate of 60.1 per 1000, which is the highest value listed for the various states. However, I down-loaded the raw numbers into a spreadsheet, and while I can get the mortallity values for most states to work out exactly, and I found a few that were off slightly, the Kansas number seeems to be off by a notable margin. For Kansas, I get total mortalities (killed plus died of wounds) of 1,000. Using a "number of men enlisted" value of 20,097 (from the same report), I get a rate of 49.8 per 1000 versus a reported rate of 61.01 per 1000.

Has anyone else run across a report of this discrepancy? Any explanation other than math error that occurs to you?

It is perhaps non-coincidental that if one uses the quota of 16,654 rather than "men enlsited" figure, one gets a rate of 60.05, which is close to the reported rate.