The recapitulation clearly exhibits the actual truth.

We opened the campaign with 98,797 (ninety-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven) men.

Blair's two divisions joined us early in June, giving 112,819 (one hundred and twelve thousand eight hundred and nineteen), which number gradually became reduced to 106,070 (one hundred and six thousand and seventy men), 91,675 (ninety-one thousand six hundred and seventy-five), and 81,758 (eighty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight) at the end of the campaign.
This gradual reduction was not altogether owing to death and wounds, but to the expiration of service, or by detachments sent to points at the rear..