Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1.
Henry Coppee , LL.D., Ed.

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[636] sold at auction. All the families who had become attached to that estate through their very sufferings, which the authoress has made us acquainted with, were scattered under the hammer of the auctioneer. This simple book bears most conclusive evidence that all that has been said in Europe about the horrors of slavery, and of its influence upon the morals of the whites, was far below the truth; and if we have not dwelt more at length upon this subject, it is because it seemed useless to us to plead in favor of a cause already triumphant.

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Note C, page 89.

Below is a table, in round numbers, according to the census of 1860, of the population of the principal cities in the slave States. In estimating the forces of the Confederacy, it will be necessary to omit from this list four of the five first-mentioned cities, which were never beyond the Federal authority. They are marked with asterisks:

* Baltimore	212,000 inhabitants.
New Orleans	169,000 inhabitants.
* St. Louis	152,000 inhabitants.
* Louisville	70,000 inhabitants.
* Washington	61,000 inhabitants.
Charleston	51,000 inhabitants.
Richmond	38,000 inhabitants.
Mobile	29,000 inhabitants.
Memphis	23,000 inhabitants.
Savannah	22,000 inhabitants.
Wilmington	21,000 inhabitants.
Petersburg	18,000 inhabitants.
Nashville	17,000 inhabitants.

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Note D, page 105.

These details, with many others relative to the Confederate army, are taken from a book entitled ‘Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army,’ by W. G. Stevenson, published in 1863. It describes most vividly the situation of the South at the commencement of the war. The author relates, with a degree of simplicity which saves him from all suspicion of exaggeration, his forced enlistment in the Confederate army, the positions he filled, willingly or unwillingly, in the infantry,