[central_va]

How many soldiers from Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri serve in the PACS? Hundreds of thousands.

[BroJoeK]

central_va: "How many soldiers from Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri serve in the PACS?
Hundreds of thousands."

Thanks for a great question, which I'll answer in its larger context:

1. Overall, just under half the Confederate Army came from the seven original secession Deep South states (493,000), and just under half from the four later-secession Upper South states (464,000), with the balance of 9% from three non-secession Border States (98,000).

2. In all eleven Confederate states, only South Carolina and Georgia provided near zero troops for the Union Army, and the overall ratio of Confederate to Union troops supplied in the Deep South was eight to one (493,000 C's to 60,000 U's).

3. In the Upper South, the ratio of Confederate to Union troops supplied was four to one (464,000 C's to 105,000 U's).

4. In the Border South states, the ratio was reversed: two to one Union soldiers (232,000 Union to 98,000 Confederates).

5. I could find no numbers for Union state boys fighting for the Confederacy, though am certain there were some, as the story of Culp's Hill at Gettysburg illustrates.

Bottom line: the total of Union troops from slave states, plus colored troops from Northern states sums up somewhere around 500,000 compared to the estimated 1,054,000 total Confederate troops.