New York Daily Tribune

OUR ARMY IN THE FIELD.

No statement has come from the War Department of the number of our troops in the field, and the difficulty of compiling such authentic tables without access to its official documents has, moreover, hitherto prevented any one from undertaking the task. The following compilation, nevertheless, is made up from a careful perusal of all the Messages or documents of Governors or Adjutant Generals of States which have been published during a month past, as well as all letters, without exception, from army correspondents of all the leading newspapers, and of the telegraphic dispatches to the Associated Press. This statement, accordingly, of the number of troops now in the field or in camp or barracks to be put in the field by the first of November is as nearly correct as anything unofficial of the kind can possibly be made. We have omitted from this table the District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Michigan, California, Oregon, and the Territories, because we have found nothing sufficiently authentic respecting them. It will be observed that the sixteen Free States enumerated below will have three hundred and sixty-two thousand troops ready for the field by the 1st of November. The States above named would probably raise this aggregate above 400,000.