The Republican journal., 1876-08-10
What the South Has Done for the Re-
public.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore sun
In the address Of General d. ii. Hill be-
fore Mccklcnburg On. CD Historical So
cicty, which is republi>hed in the May
number of the Southern Historical So
ciety Papers" some interesting facts are
revived rs to the contributions which the
South has made to the military and civil
service of the republic. beginning with
the fact that the COMMUNICATIVE chief of
the first great rebellion was Il Nirginian.
il is added that the South furnished troops
out of all proportion to the number Of her
population Almost all the battle-lields OF
the North were drenched with Southern
blood. At the battle of LOng Island
(Bruoklyn) regiment of Marylanders
fought so stoutlv and checked the British
advance so long that it was virtually de-
stroyed. Hall the Victors at Trenton and
Princeton were from Virginia. Two future
Presidents OF the United States. OF South
ern birth, were in that battle, one OF
whom was wounded The only general
officer there slain was from Fredericks-
burg, Virginia. and he was commanding
Southern troops The retreat at White
Plains was saved from disaster by Il
charge OF Southern troops. and at Ger
mantown Il Southern brigade gained i'm
mortal honor The Virginia troops bore
the blunt of the battle of Brandywine At
Monmouth and on the plains OF Saratoga
Southern blood mingled with the North
massacre by the Indians in the valley OF
Wyoming, 1116, George Rogers Clarke OF
Virginia, with Il brigade OF his country
men, penetrated to the upper Mississippi,
| chust;sed the sayages, seized tl0,O00 Sjer-
| ling. Y most seaS0nabe addition to our
currency LIN the war OF 1872 Harrison
and jackson, Southern men. gained the
most laurels as shown by the elevation Of
| both Of them to the presidency tor Their
military proves. The most brilliant land
| fights Of that war were in defense OF New
Orleans, Mobile, Craney Island, and Bal
timore, in which few but Southern troops
| were engaged While the North may
have furnished more of the naval heroes
in that contest. vet the war OF 1872 was
unpopular in New England. and the South
again furnished more than her proportion
| of troops Kentucky is said to have tum-
| shed more troops for the invasion Q!
| Canada than any State in the Union. IL
we read Of the bloody battles in Canad;.
we are struck with the number OF South
| ern officers there engaged mostly general
| oflicrrs-W Wilkinson, lizard, Winder, Dray-
| ton, Scott lowson, Brooke, Gaines, etc.
! The supplies oi the army in the Revolution,
and in the war OF ISL came largely from
| tho South.
| In the Mexican war the commanders ol
| both American armies We're Nrginians,
one OF whom (Ia}lor) became President,
! and the other an unsuccessful candidate
| for the prcsidcncN TW0-thirds of the
| volunteer troops OF that war were from
the South. Even in the late civil war the
| Federal President was a Southern born
| man. and the first communicative chief,
| whose plan for the subsequent conductor
OF the war was probably that which was
| finally successfully acted on. was Viz
| oinian. Next to Grant and Sherman.
whose leading military conceptions Were.
perhaps, derived from General Scott the
most successful Federal generals We're
Southern men. viz.: Thomas. Candy,
| Blair. Sykes Ord, Getty Anderson, Al
eXandcr, Nelson. sc General Ilill de-
clures that the stubborn resistance Of
| General Thomas at CnIchamauga and the
refusal Of Andrew johnson to give up
| Nashville, as Buell. directed dug the
| grave Of the Conlcderacy Earragut Of
| Tennessee rose to the highest rank in the
Federal navy. The naval forces at Hat
teras were under command of Colds
borough of Maryland General Hill is of
opinion that the South furnished as many
troops to the Federal army as did the pop
| ulous North. At any rate there We're no
better troops in the Union service Mis-
| souri, gave los, ,415 soldiers to the Federal
army Kentucky ~, 600, and Maryland
| ~. .13O. Other Southern States contribute
ed in greater or less degree. In H,l there
were 400, 900 natiVe-bom SoGthcruers in
| the Federal service, This does not in
clude the 21O 900 negro tro ppS, without
whom Nlr Stanton said that the lie Of
the nation could not have been saved
which, though, is generally regarded as
bosh In regard to the loss of life in the
battles of the late war, General llill states
| that since the Introduction OF firearms the
losses sustained in the great battles OF the
world have only in rare cases been SO
much as IL fourth OF the troops engaged,
and they range from that up to one twen-
| llGlH. ne 1ollltltl dttS tHtU9HG lHtt
battle almost II skirmish in which their
losses did not exceed a fourth. Tried by
this test European fighting has been
child'7 play in comparison am
ashamed for strangers to see my barefoot,
ragged boys in camp" said General Lee
to an English visitor, but | would be
| glad for all the world to see them on the
field of battle"
llil!'s sketch of the political services of
the South to the country from the begin
ming Of Washington's administration to
that of General Grant. Without dispar-
aging either the military or the civil ser
vices of the North to the republic, it may
be well in this centennial year to revive
the memory Of what the South, too, has
done for the common country, and to vim
| Iiratn the tl1Ith of history