Statistics for occurrence #1 of “President Davis” in article 3 of The Daily Dispatch: September 29, 1862., [Electronic resource]:
...8; Brigadier-Generals, 41.
From this list, which ends with 1848, it appears that we have 64 Generals from West Point in our army, while the U. S. have but 41.
It was no idle or unmeaning boast of President Davis that he had the choice of the officers of the old army.
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