1. The large proportion of Northern enlistees in general and the larger than one proportion of recruits from the colored male population of the District of Columbia in particular may be partially explained by the possibility that these enlistees included a significant number of Blacks who emigrated from the South after 1860. Verification of this conjecture, however, must await further research
2. Complexions classified as light were yellow, mulatto, light, fair, light brown, and white. Most of the 830 soldiers of light complexion in the investigated sample were yellow (583), mulatto (101), and light (120), who together comprised 97 percent of the entire group. The dark complexions were black, brown, dark, copper, negro, dark brown, and mahogany; of the 7,763 soldiers of dark complexion, 90 percent were described as black (5,469) or dark (1,528)