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No solid figures were found on this. However, the 1860 US Census placed the population of the seceding States at approximately 9,000,000. A sizable portion of the 9 million was perhaps close to 4 million slaves.

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The population of the South was approximately 9 million in 1861 at the beginning of the conflict.

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my guess is around 12 thousand

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