The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
Fought Against their Mother.

l.. were called for" by the Yankee Go
:. ernment to make the Anti Slavery Rs
III on the South, and that 2, 772, 4O8 men I
sponded, or we're forced into blu
h, Jackets by the Draft" Of course te
be of thousands of these never reached Il
field, as many men made a practice
It. joining various regiments under warrior
or names, AID getting bounties from al
Q Nevertheless the pay rolls show tb;
q more than tUo millions and an half we
A. actually enrolled to whip the half a mi
lion of Southerners!
TWO AND HALF MILLIONS /
that is more than twice as man
: men as were in America whe
the Revolution was fought! 1t is NOR
r than all the white men in the South i
/, 1860; and more than all the white men
women, and children of Dixie,-if "
count only those who helped to defent
D their section, or as the saying goes
/ Aided and abettcd the Confederacy."
Just here We note another fact which
= will be new to many; namely that the
Southern States had half as many mer
in the Yankee service as in the Rebe,
Army, at any one time The same book
of u. S. Statistics shows that Alabama
furnished TO the Federal Army 2 $50
men Arkansas furnished $3.50; Miss
lssippi, $40 Missourie, 100, III Ken
lucky, 70, go; Tennessee, 3l,O92, (be-
sides bush-whaekers) !; North Carolina,
3 ,l56, (besides Kirkites); Florida, i, e9O:
Louisiana, 1924; Texas, 1865; New
Mexico, 6,561 Delaware, 12.2S4; Mary
land, 46, 63S West Va. 80, O6S: District
OF Columbia, Is, 534, making a total of
36l 1903 white soldiers furnished the Yam
kee armies from the slave holding States,
exclusive OF Virginia and South Carolina,
which we may assume furnished twenty
or thirty thousand more, as part of both
States were under Yankee control from
early In the struggle. There were also
many individual Southerners in all the
Northern regiments, especially the New
York and California.
In addition to the above we're 93,44l
colored troops-"organized within the
Rebel States, and not including those
cred.ted to UariouS Northern States"
Now it is known that more than half
the soldiers furnished by some of the
Yankee States, including old abolitionist
Massachusetts, were negroes, bought to
serve as food for Rebel powder.
New England had scores on scores of
Southern niger regiments doing the F.,
duty her sons ought to have done. I
There were also thousands of South t
erners in the Yankee Navy. South a
carolina had many well known names. =
Ike Drayton, Gaines, etc. North Caro- {
ina had Bell and others, Tennessee had I
and others, Virginia had hun +
OF officers and many men.
80 to sum UP, We may co~nscientiously n
lain that every Confederate soldier !;
truggled against the combined average b
I live foes, one of whom was a Southern e
r. one a Northerner, one a negro, and Il
wo foreigners, including a large percent. h
ge OF mere hireliDgs, who could not
cad, write, on speak, the English Ian p
and neither knew, nor cared for. D
lie Right and Justice of the struggle. y
And now to show the motives of the !:
az, We quote, first, Senator hawiey's
and deliberate assertion that y
le war was not SO much to save the
mon as to crush the shareholders and 70
them of their property, and sec fc
I'd we quote the following from the s.
NeWs, a strong Republican pa "
,r:-
Totally unlike the beautiful pictures Nj
avn by the orators of Decoration Day RI
e the facts connected with our own -.
war. There was a rush of men, it is =
lie, when war was declared, but of b
ese few had the smallest idea as to wi
lat the action really meant. 1t was a Or
ought that there was going to be a
md military picnic. Few supposed -
the South would fight, or, if it did un
that there would be anything seri- str
s. There would lie a demonstration or 30
a sklrmish or so, possibly a battle.
4 that would be all there could be of if, Z
e hrst call tor troops was responded 10
men out OF business or those who were Is
with what they were doing asf
~ sought the war as an occupation suc
rmers boys rushed in by the thous rea,
Is; they were wearied with the hum
and monotony of farm life. II was que
ala occaslOn-such a thing as saving are
country, OF dying for the fatherland. the
'er entered the souls of any of these INV
ing patriots who rallied around the ~;
when the first summons came for :,
q to put down the outbreak. They llsh
went eli gayly to the front not one glac
thousand of them ever entertained the
thought that there was much danger i E.
he trip, still less anything in the ma
e OF wounds, captivity or death. The No
ties OF Wilson's Creek, Bull Run, and
or two other localities, went through
North like a universal electric shock
as the first sad intimation to the mil No
s OF people that we were confronted
actual war that the movement was
In the nature of a picnic among the No
OF the South. The hot and n
1erlng blasts of death which scorched oann,i
registering young enthusiasts in the ban
Is OF southwestern Missouri and in Jag
ravInes OF Virginia were the first sug. y ~ ~
ION to them that they had engaged 90 -