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Theodore Roosevelt (search for this): chapter 6
e diverse elements that made up those armies? The Southern planter might fight for his slaves; but why the poor white man, who had none? How could slavery generate such devotion, such patient endurance, such splendid heroism, such unconquerable tenacity through four long years of painfully unequal struggle? The world acknowledges the superb valor of the men who fought under the Southern Cross—and the no less superb devotion of the whole people to the cause of the Confederacy. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has written, The world has never seen better soldiers than those who followed Lee. Company G of the eighteenth Virginia old ironsides Lieutenant R. Ferguson Lieutenant E. H. Muse Lieutenant A. Campbell A look at these frank, straightforward features conveys at a glance the caliber of the personnel in the Army of Northern Virginia. Good American faces they are, with good old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon names—Campbell, Ferguson, Hardy, Irby, Sydnor. They took part
Lloyd (search for this): chapter 6
shreds and patches, interspersed with rents. A fine-looking group of Confederate officers The officers in Camp at the east end of Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, illustrate forcibly Dr. McKim's description of the personnel of the Confederate army. The preservation of the photograph is due to the care of the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, S. C., in which these men were officers. To the left stands M. Master, and in front of him are Lieutenant Wilkie, R. Choper, and Lieutenant Lloyd. Facing them is Captain Simmonton, and the soldier shading his eyes with his hand is Gibbs Blackwood. It is easy to see from their fine presence and bearing that these were among the many thousands of Southerners able to distinguish themselves in civil life who nevertheless sprang to bear arms in defense of their native soil. In an interval of the suspension of hostilities at the battle of Cold Harbor, writes Randolph H. McKim in the text of this volume, a private soldier lies on the
R. Choper (search for this): chapter 6
it was a thing of shreds and patches, interspersed with rents. A fine-looking group of Confederate officers The officers in Camp at the east end of Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, illustrate forcibly Dr. McKim's description of the personnel of the Confederate army. The preservation of the photograph is due to the care of the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, S. C., in which these men were officers. To the left stands M. Master, and in front of him are Lieutenant Wilkie, R. Choper, and Lieutenant Lloyd. Facing them is Captain Simmonton, and the soldier shading his eyes with his hand is Gibbs Blackwood. It is easy to see from their fine presence and bearing that these were among the many thousands of Southerners able to distinguish themselves in civil life who nevertheless sprang to bear arms in defense of their native soil. In an interval of the suspension of hostilities at the battle of Cold Harbor, writes Randolph H. McKim in the text of this volume, a private
Hugh McCulloch (search for this): chapter 6
er-failing system of supplies. The First Massachusetts was in active service at the front throughout the war and the conditions that Captain Adams actually witnessed afford a most direct basis for the truth of his conclusions. had the blockade of the Southern ports been removed by us. . . . It was the blockade of your ports that killed the Southern Confederacy, not the action of the Northern armies. Compare with this mature opinion of the accomplished English soldier the words of Honorable Hugh McCulloch, one of Lincoln's Secretaries of the Treasury. It was the blockade that isolated the Confederate States and caused their exhaustion. If the markets of Europe had been open to them for the sale of their cotton and tobacco, and the purchase of supplies for their armies, their subjugation would have been impossible. It was not by defeats in the field that the Confederates were overcome, but by the exhaustion resulting from their being shut up within their own domain, and compelled to
O. E. Hunt (search for this): chapter 6
? No, but they are armed with long cumbrous rifles utterly unfit for mounted men, or with double-barreled shotguns, or old squirrel-rifles. What chance has a regiment thus armed, and also miserably mounted, against those well-armed, well-equipped, wellmounted, and well-disciplined Federal cavalrymen? The arms and equipment of the Confederate army will be found fully discussed by Professer J. W. Mallet, late Superintendent of the Ordnance Laboratories of the Confederate States, and Captain O. E. Hunt, U. S. A., in a chapter on the Organization and Operation of the Ordnance Department of the Confederate Army in the volume on Forts and Artillery. Another feature of the conditions prevailing in the Confederate army may be here noted. Look at Lee's veterans as Amusements in a Confederate camp—1864 This Camp of Confederate pickets on Stono Inlet near Charleston, S. C., was photographed by George S. Cook, the same artist who risked his life taking photographs of Fort Sumter.
John B. Gordon (search for this): chapter 6
oldier lies on the ground poring over an Arabic grammar—it is Crawford H. Toy, who is destined to become the famous professor of Oriental languages at Harvard University. In one of the battles in the Valley of Virginia a volunteer aid of General John B. Gordon is severely wounded—it is Basil L. Gildersleeve, who has left his professor's chair at the University of Virginia to serve in the field. He still lives (1911), wearing the laurel of distinction as the greatest Grecian in the English-spealdier lies on the ground poring over an Arabic grammar—it is Crawford H. Toy, who is destined to become the famous professor of Oriental languages at Harvard University. In one of the battles in the Valley of Virginia, a volunteer aid of General John B. Gordon is severely wounded—it is Basil L. Gildersleeve, who has left his professor's chair at the University of Virginia to serve in the field. He still lives (1911), wearing the laurel of distinction as the greatest Grecian in the English-spe
Randolph H. McKim (search for this): chapter 6
Glimpses of the Confederate army Randolph H. Mckim, D. D., Late First Lieutenant, and A. D. C. 3d Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia [This chapter was prepared by Dr. McKim at the request of the Editors of the Photographic History of the Civil War to describe the Confederate army from the standpoint of the individual and tomp at the east end of Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, illustrate forcibly Dr. McKim's description of the personnel of the Confederate army. The preservation of val of the suspension of hostilities at the battle of Cold Harbor, writes Randolph H. McKim in the text of this volume, a private soldier lies on the ground poring o gray-clad ranks. And how cheerful—how uncomplaining—how gallant they were! Dr. McKim records. They had not even the reward which is naturally dear to a soldier's he rivers and closed the ports, the Confederates marched and fought, to quote Dr. McKim, and starved truly without reward. Eleven dollars a month in Confederate pap
Charles A. Whittier (search for this): chapter 6
ed, and nineteen were wounded. The company fought to the bitter end; Captain Campbell (page 111) was killed at Sailor's Creek, only three days before Appomattox. Lieutenant Samuel hardy Captain P. F. Rowlett Captain Richard Irby Lieutenant A. D. Crenshaw Lieutenant J. E. Irvin Color-sergeant E. G. Sydnor General Hooker has testified that for steadiness and efficiency Lee's army was unsurpassed in ancient or modern times. We have not been able to rival it. And General Charles A. Whittier of Massachusetts has said, The Army of Northern Virginia will deservedly rank as the best army which has existed on this continent, suffering privations unknown to its opponent. Nor is it credible that such valor and such devotion were inspired by the desire to hold their fellow men in slavery? Is there any example of such a phenomenon in all the long records of history? Consider, too, another fact for which the historians must assign a sufficient motive. On the bronze tab
Field (search for this): chapter 6
vast power of the Northern States. And yet none of these considerations furnishes the true explanation of the failure of the Confederate armies to establish the Confederacy. It was not superior equipment. It was not alone the iron will of Grant, or the strategy of Sherman. A power mightier than all these held the South by the throat and slowly strangled its army and its people. That power was Sea Power. The Federal navy, not the Federal army, conquered the South. In my opinion, said Field-Marshal Viscount Wolseley, in a private letter to me, dated November 12, 1904, in my opinion, as a student of war, the Confederates must have won, A future historian, while history was in the making—1864 In the center of this group, taken before Petersburg, in August, 1864, sits Captain Charles Francis Adams, Jr., then of the First Massachusetts Cavalry, one of the historians referred to in the text accompanying. In his oration on General Lee, delivered October 30, 1901, Captain Adams
Banks (search for this): chapter 6
with sabers captured from the Federals. It is estimated by surviving ordnance officers that not less than two-thirds of the artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia was captured, especially the 3-inch rifles and the 10-pound Parrotts. During the first year, before the blockade became stringent, Whitworth guns were brought in from abroad. But that soon stopped, and we had to look largely to Uncle Sam for our supply. We used to say in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, of 1862, that General Banks was General Jackson's quartermaster-general—yes, and his chief ordnance officer, too. General Shields was another officer to whom we were much indebted for artillery and small arms, and later General Pope. General Gorgas, Chief of the Confederate Ordnance Bureau, stated that from July 1, 1861, to Jan. 1, 1865, there were issued from the Richmond arsenal 323,231 infantry arms, 34,067 cavalry arms, 44,877 swords and sabers, and that these were chiefly arms from battlefields, repaired. B
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