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[Game of Thrones TV Show] What happened to the 100k strong freefolk/wildling army?

I was watching the old episodes to catch up for SSN7 and wondered what happened to Mance Ryder's wildling army. IIRC, it is mentioned that there are 100k people in his army before their first attack on the wall. Stannis attacks them with his 20k army and wins because of surprise. Was Stannis able to capture 100k wildlings? or did they scatter during that battle?

After hardhome, when Jon marches to winterfell they say they only have 3000 men. Does that mean that they lost 97k people to the White walkers during hardhome?
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100k people, not soldiers. A large chunk are women, children, old folk, a few cripples, etc.

They would have lost a disproportionate amount of men when Stannis attacked, more to the battle of Winterfell. The remainder are likely holding the wall.