The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22
"Taz LOST CAUSE. !"
Other Things Besides Numerical
Odds that Caused the confeder-
ate Soldiers to Fall.
McCarthy's Soldier Life in the Army of
Northern Virginia

= NCTtueru flISlula
The Confederate soldier opposed
immense odds. In the Seven Days
Battles around Richmond, $4,000
drove to the James river LID, 900 o
the enemy. At Fredericksburg, IL
1862, $4,000 of them routed 10000
federal troops. At Charlottesville
in 1863, 1000, under Lee and Jack
son, whipped, and but for the deatt
of Jackson, would have annihilateC
an army of 132, 900 men, more thar
double their own number. Al
Gettysburg, $4,000 of them assailed
the heights manned by 10000. A
the wilderness, in 1864, $4,000 me-
and successfully resisted 151 600 O.
the enemy. At Appomattox, il
, 1866, 5000 of them surrendered tt
the host commanded by Grant
The United States government, al
the end of the war, mustered out o.
service, 100000 of men, and ha6
in the field, from first to last, $500,
900. If the confederate soldier ha6
then had only this disparity of mum
bers to contend with, he would have
driven every invader from the sol
of Virginia.
But the confederate soldier
fought, in addition to these odds
the facilities for the transportation
and supplies afforded by the net
work of railways in the country
north of him, all of which were sub
ject to the control of the govern
ment, and backed by a treasury
which was turning out money by
the ton, 81 of which was worth sixty
confederate dollars. l.s...
1t should be remembered, also,
that while the south was restricted
to its own territory for supplies,
and its own people for men, the
north drew on the world for ma
terial, and on every nation of the
earth for men.
The arms and ammunition of the
federal soldiers were abundant and
good, so abundant and SO good that
they supplied both armies, and were
greatly preferred by confederate
officers. The equipment OF the
federal armies was well nigh per-
feet. The facilities. for manufac-
ture were simply unlimited, and the
nation thought no expenditure OF
treasure too great, if only the coun-
try-the Union could be saved.
The factory and foundry chimneys
made pillar of smoke by day and
fire by night. The latest improve
ments were hurried to the front and
adopted by both armies almost
simultaneously; for hardly had the
federals bought when the. con-
federates captured and used the
very latest.
| Commissary stores were piled uE
all over Virginia for the use of the
invading armies. They had more
than they could protect, and theil
loss was a gain to the hungry de-
tenders of the soil. The confeder-
ate soldiers fought a host of ills
occasioned by the deprivation Of
chloroform and morphia, which
were excluded from the confederacy
as contraband of war. The man
who had submitted to amputation
without chloroform or tossed on a
couch of agony for a night and a
day without sleep for the want of a
dose of morphia may possibly be
able to estimate the advantages
which resulted from the possession
by the federal surgeons of an un-
| limited suDDlV of these.
The confederate, soldier fought
bounties and regular monthly pay,
the "Stars and Stripes the "StaI
Spangled Banner" "Hail Colum-
bia,'' Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
"John Browns Body" Orally
Round the Flag" and all the fury
and fanaticism which skilled minds
could create, opposing this grand
array with the modest and homely
refrain of Dixie" supported by a
mild solution of "Maryland, My
Maryland" He = fought good
wagons, fat horses and tons OF
quartermasters' stores; pontoor
trains of splendid material and con
struction by the mile; gunboats,
wooden and iron, and men-of- war;
illustrated papers, to cheer the Boys
in Blue, with sketches of the glori-
Gus deeds they did not do; bibles
by the carload, and tracts by the
millionaire first to prepare them
for death and the second to urge
upon them the duty of dying.
| The confederate soldier fought
the Sanitary Commission" whose
members, armed with every facility
and convenience, quickly carried
the sick and wounded of the fedora
army to comfortable quarters, re
moved the bloody garments, lai6
the sufferer on a clean and d;y
couch, clothed him in clean clothes
and fed him on the best the world
could afford and money buy. HI
fought the well-built, thoroughly
equipped ambulances, the countless
surgeons, nurses and hospital stew
, ards, and the best surgical appli
ances known to the medical world
; He fought the commerce of thu
United States and all the facilities
for war which Europe could supply
while his own ports were closed Il
all the world. He fought the trained
officers and the regular troops o
; the United States army, assisted b.
l splendid volunteer soldiers, beside
. swarms of men, the refuse of thu
earth--Portugese, Spanish, italian
r German, Irish, Scotch, English
French, Chinese, Japanese-white
black, olive and brown. He lait
1 down life for life with this hirelin;
: host, who died for pay-mourne,
t by no one, missed by no one, love-
by no one, who were better fed an,
clothed, fatter, happier and NOR
S contented in the army than eve
:. they were at home, and who's
graves strew the earth in lonesom
= places, where none go to weep =
= When one of these fell, two coul
be brought to fill the gap. Th
:, confederate soldier killed these with
> out conjunction, and their CON
. rades buried them without teal
= The confederate soldier Tough