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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
he Confederates were unable to supply it with a field artillery equal to that of their adversaries. They had undoubtedly many able and well-trained officers; but as a general thing, their soldiers did not possess that intelligence and taste for the mechanical arts which, in a short time, converted the volunteers of the North into excellent artillerymen. As will be seen further on, their materiel was also of an inferior quality; and it required the courage and the daring of a few men like Pendleton, Stuart's chief of artillery, to compensate in part for this inferiority. This was not the case with the Confederate artillery in position. That portion of it which had charge of the defences of their seaports was mostly recruited in the cities, among men who, from their education, resembled more the artisans of the North than the common whites of the South. We shall see them, therefore, acquiring under able instructors a great precision of aim, and holding out in all the forts along th