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Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
ed by the Adjutant-General's Office of the United States July 15, 1885: Total enlistments in Union army2,778,304 Deducting Indians3,530 Deducting Negroes178,975182,505 ——— Total enlistment of white men2,595,799 The seceding States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia (then including West Virginia) furnished to the Federal army 86,009 white troops, while the slave-holding States, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, which never formally seceded, furnished to the Federal army 190,430 white soldiers, and the negro population of the various States furnished 178,975 negro troops. Summarized, it is as follows: White soldiers furnished to Federal army by seceded States,86,009 White soldiers furnished to Federal army by non seceding slave States190,430 Negro troops178,975 ——— Total troops furnished United States army by slave-holding States455,414 The largest muster-roll of the Southern Conf
Seminary Ridge (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
llorsville, and who, on his many battlefields, had known no other song than the shout of victory, had crossed over the river. The South, to her remotest borders, gave signs of woe over his death, and Lee had spoken of him as his right arm, while a northern poet, in a poem of exquisite beauty, calls him a light—a landmark in the clouds of war. These great armies met by an accidental collision around the village of Gettysburg, the Federals having possession of the commanding heights of Seminary Ridge, Cemetery Hill, Little and Big Round Top. Too many able pens have already wasted their wealth of expression in describing this great conflict for us, in the brief limits of this article, to attempt a description of this great battle. It is our province to fairly portray the numbers and resources of the combatants. According to abstracts of returns for General Meade's army, June 30th, the day before the battle, he had, including the reinforcements which reached him during the battle,
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
opulation of 24,000,000. This gave the Union side about three to one of the aggregate population. The Confederate States had a seaboard from the Potomac to the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas, and, having no navy, was exposed as much to naval attacks as those by land. They were, in fact, a beleaguered fortress, girdled on one side by a line of battleships, and on the other by a line of bayonets. In fact, the morning drum-beat of the Federal navy was heard in an unbroken strain from Fortress Monroe to where the Mexic sea kisses the Mexic shore. During the war six hundred vessels stood sentinel along the Confederate coast. The South having been cut off from the outside world by the blockade, and being an agricultural country, had neither navy-yards nor shops for the manufacture of cannon and small arms, and in the first battles her soldiers were often armed with shot-guns till they could capture better arms from the enemy. There were enlisted in the Federal army during the war
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
, one inch thick. The friction being the same, it required little mathematical knowledge to divine the result. For the benefit of the future historian, we compile the following statistics issued by the Adjutant-General's Office of the United States July 15, 1885: Total enlistments in Union army2,778,304 Deducting Indians3,530 Deducting Negroes178,975182,505 ——— Total enlistment of white men2,595,799 The seceding States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia (then including West Virginia) furnished to the Federal army 86,009 white troops, while the slave-holding States, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, which never formally seceded, furnished to the Federal army 190,430 white soldiers, and the negro population of the various States furnished 178,975 negro troops. Summarized, it is as follows: White soldiers furnished to Federal army by seceded States,86,009 White soldiers furnished to Federa<
Tennessee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
ng. At 5 o'clock the next morning, April 6, 1862, the battle opened by an assault along the entire Federal front with the corps of Hardee, Bragg and Polk. It is not our intention to attempt a description of the bloody tragedy. Sherman's lines were broken, Prentiss with his brigade was captured, Hurleburt and McClernand and Wallace were driven in utter rout. At 6 o'clock P. M. the Confederates occupied every camp of the Federals except the one guarded by the gunboats on the bank of the Tennessee. The Federal army, which had fought with splendid gallantry that day, cowered that night on the river bank, no longer an army, but a disorganized mass of fugitives, many of whom were trying to cross the river on logs and such driftwood as the river afforded. (See report of McCook, Crittenden and Buell.) It is said that in the afternoon of Waterloo, when Napoleon's battalions had captured La Ha Saynte, and Wellington felt that the day would be lost, that, looking up to the sun, then seemi
Murfreesboro (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
ut were we to allow ourselves to speculate on this question we would be constrained to ask the American people how it was that General Grant, who up to this time had never achieved a single success except by vastly superior numbers, should have been accepted as the Moses to lead the Union forces to victory and final triumph. On December 31 and January 1-3, 1862-1862, the Federal army, commanded by General Rosecrans, met the Confederates, commanded by General Bragg, at Stone's river, or Murfreesboro. The fight lasted a part of two days, the Confederates withdrawing from the field, but carrying off their dead and wounded and artillery. The last returns of Rosecrans' army before this battle were as follows: Present for duty—Centre corps, 29,682; right wing, 13,779; left wing, 13,061; unattached forces, 9,748; total, 66,270. Rosecrans, in his official report (Official Records, Vol. XX, p. 196), says: We moved on the enemy with the following force: 46,940. We fought the enemy with
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
. The friction being the same, it required little mathematical knowledge to divine the result. For the benefit of the future historian, we compile the following statistics issued by the Adjutant-General's Office of the United States July 15, 1885: Total enlistments in Union army2,778,304 Deducting Indians3,530 Deducting Negroes178,975182,505 ——— Total enlistment of white men2,595,799 The seceding States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia (then including West Virginia) furnished to the Federal army 86,009 white troops, while the slave-holding States, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, which never formally seceded, furnished to the Federal army 190,430 white soldiers, and the negro population of the various States furnished 178,975 negro troops. Summarized, it is as follows: White soldiers furnished to Federal army by seceded States,86,009 White soldiers furnished to Federal army by non se<
Chickahominy (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
y on the plateau between the Antietam and the Potomac. It is a glorious battlefield for armies of equal strength. It was full of danger to the smaller army, with a great river in its rear in case of disaster. McClellan comes to retrieve the disasters of Richmond, and to infuse new life in the vanishing morale of Pope's disheartened army. It is an open field and a fair fight. It was a conflict between two chiefs who had walked face to face the fiery edge of battle on the banks of the Chickahominy. Hooker's veteran division assailed with intrepid daring Lee's right, but as Gibraltar has dashed for ages the Mediterranean wave, so dashed Lee the assaulting column. Then McClellan's oncoming hosts fling themselves with reckless courage on Lee's center, but as roll a thousand waves to the rock, so Swaran's hosts came on; as meets a rock a thousand waves, so Inisfail met Swaran. The sun rises to the zenith, and Lee's army still holds its front of flame defiant to McClellan's hosts. B
Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
00 at Gettysburg; 15,000 sustaining a frightful repulse from 60,000 at Fredericksburg; 100,000 attacked and defeated by 50,000 at Chancellorsville; 85,000 held in check two days by 40,000 at Antietam; 43,000 retaining the field uncertainly against 38,000 at Stone's river; 70,000 defeated at Chickamauga and beleaguered by 70,000 at Chattanooga; 80,000 merely to break the investing line of 45,000 at Chattanooga; 100,000 to press back 50,000 (afterwards increased to 70,000) from Chattanooga to Atlanta, a distance of 120 miles; 500,000 to defeat the investing line of 30,000 at Nashville; and finally, 120,000 to overcome 60,000 with exhaustion after a struggle of a year in Virginia. We are not discussing the question of which is the better soldier. There are logical reasons why it took three or more Federals to overcome one Confederate. It was not for want of courage on the part of the Federal soldier. The men who laid their lives on the sacrificial altar in front of Marye's Heights
Appomattox (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
mpressed the children of those who sustained the Lost Cause as though the history of their ancestors would not bear criticism. These children have heard nothing but the songs of the victors, and it is due them that they should have the facts of history as presented by the official records, to prove to them that though the children of the vanquished, yet they are descended from heroes. We say to the victors, Raise your Arc de Triomphe and write in letters of gold, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Appomattox, and our children will pass with uncovered heads under its shining arch; but let them, as they look up through their tears at the obverse side of this arch, see written, Federal enlistments, 2,778,304; Confederate enlistments, 600,000, and this is all they ask. It is the truth which makes a man free. In this article we have spoken unstintingly of the gallantry of the Federals on many hard-fought fields, and have not spoken, except incidentally, of the bravery and endurance of the Confe
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