Sir,

Just an academic caution note, most of the university history professors that I know will not allow Wikipedia to be used as sources. It is not a trustworthy source. The material you give above is an example of that. Although the article has somewhat of a bibliography, I did pull one of the books off of my shelf ("What they Fought For") and did not find the all the numbers that are listed in the article. I verified footnotes 5 & 6 but none of the other statistics were verifiable.

I hope this helps.

Respectfully,

Gerald D. Hodge, Jr.
War Between the States Historian
Historian: 39th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
http://39thgavolinfrgt.homestead.com/39thHomepage.html