Identifier: storyofamericand01west (find matches)
Title: The story of American democracy, political and industrial
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: West, Willis M. (Willis Mason), b. 1857
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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to-day glories inthe splendid chivalry and magnificent generalship of ascore of Confederate leaders, among whom — only a littlebrighter than the rest — shine the names of StonewallJackson, Gordon, Longstreet, the two Johnstons, JebStuart, and Lee. On the whole, until the final year, the armies in actualconflict did not often vary greatly in numbers. Then,indeed, the exhausted South could no longer make goodher losses in battle — though her stern recruiting systemdid rob the cradle and the grave. Her ranks shrankdaily, while the Northern armies grew larger than ever.At the opening of that last terrible year of slaughter, fromMay 5 to June 12 (1864), — or from the Wilderness toPetersburg, — Grant hurled his 120,000 veterans almost * On tlie plantations, too, under the management of women, slaves raised thefood crops for the South. Wonderful to say, there was no hint of a slave-risingduring the war, and, until 1863, very little increase of runaways. FORCES, NORTH AND SOUTH 541
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Lee and Jackson. The name Stoiiewull \va.> tiiven Jackson at Bull Run,where his brigade withstood what at first seemed an overwhelming Union onset.Like Cromwells Ironsides, Jackson was wont to kneel in prayer before a charge-He was called Lees right hand. 542 THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 daily at Lees 70,000, sufiFering a loss of 60,000 to Lees14,000. New recruits were always ready to step into thegaps in the Union regiments; while the Confederate rankscould only close up grimly. In the remaining campaigns,the Union forces usually outnumbered their opponents atleast two to one. To add to the disparity. Grant sternlyrefused to exchange prisoners. Military prisons are always a sore subject. There isusually a tendency, in a long conflict, for their administra- . tion, on both sides, to fall to men less competent and less chivalrous than those who seek service atthe front. Even in the early years of the war, there had beenterrible misery in the prisons at the South — where medicinesand s

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