The National tribune., 1889-05-23
FIGHTING THEM OVER.
What0Br Veterans Have to Say About
Their Old Campaigns
LOYAL soUTHRoNs.
What Part They Took in the Rebellion.


The following paper was read at Campfire
given 10 the Department Encampment Of Ken
lucky. April p, 1883, at Newport KY, in re-
spouse to the toast Border southern States"
by L. r. Hawthorne, of Newport, Ky:
A quarter Of a century has passed since the
struggle for the maintenance OF the Union
closed with the downfall OF tie rebel Confed-
eracv The time has come when the Union
men aud soldiers Of the Border Southern States
should assert the all important part they played
IN this stupeudOus drama, which has no paral-
lei IN history; the effect or bearing of which
seems 10 be overlooked as time gathers the act
ors into oblivion, and the memories of the liy-
ing fade. A just appreciation OF the facts, and
a correct deduction therefrom. history, in my
opinion, viii surely establish in the years 10
come.
There is not now and there never has been
given due credit 10 the Union men of the Bor-
der Southern States for their devotion 60 the
Government for their sacrifices for the Union
OF the States, and TO the weight of their valor
in determining the final result. Without the
patriotic support and adhesion of this section
of our country and the soldiers furnished by
these States the war for the supremacy Of the
Union would have been indefinitely prolonged,
or the Confederate Government established.
A glance at the statistics Of the war of the re-
bellion is convincing of this assertion; and yet
there are thousands of intelligent people, es-
pecially in the North and East, who have not
the faintest conception of the tremendous force
eXerted by these States in the c0B1ict which
ended in triumph.
The State of Missouri furnished 100, III men;
Kentucky, 79,025 men; Maryland, 50,3l3 men
West Virginia, 32065 men; Tennessee, 81, 092
men; Delaware, 1850 men; Arkansas, S,2S9
men, total Of 81, SOS men. Not counting
the 81, 7S9 colOred troops enlisted within their
o.. l.
and militia called cut for short terms of serv-
ice Missouri furnished "a regiments and as
companies of infantry and cavalry, and six
batteries Of light artillery; Kentucky furnish
ed 81 regiments and II companies of infantry
and cavalry, and seven batteries of light artil-
lery; Maryland furnished "a regiments and
five companies of infantry and cavalry, and six
batteries Of light artillery; West Virginia fur
nisAed "A regiments and FIVE companies Of in
fantry and cavalry, and eight batteries Of light
artillery; Tennessee furnished 80 regiments
and seven companies Of infantry and cavalry,
and five batteries OF light artillery; Delaware
furnished nine regiments and l3 companies of
Infantry and cavalry, and one battery OF light
artillery; Arkansas furnished seven regiments
and two companies of infantry and cavalry,
and one battery Of light artillery.
The total number of regiments furnished by
al the States and Territories, including the
Regular Army, was l,9S1. 1t then appears that
the Border Southern States furnished Is per
cent. Of the whole. The total number of indie
pendent companies furnished was 49S. Of
these IS were furnished BY the Border South
ern States, being Is per cent of the whole
The total number Of batteries furnished were
232-34Ol which were furnished by said States
being IA per cent Of ali. The total number of
men furnished By all the States aud Terrific
ries were 2,772 40s. OF these the Border South
eTn States furnished 323s 566 or y per cent. Of
the whole.
Let US pause for moment and speculate. if
we can, on the result TO the Union cause if this
vast army Of men had thrown the weight OF
their prowess upon the rebel side
In the engagements which terminated with
the capture of Ficksburg Missouri and Ken
lucky furnished % regiments Of infantry and
cavalry and seven batteries Of artillery TO the
Union army. In the battle of Shiloh Missouri
and Kentucky furnished % regiments of in
fantTy aud cavalry and FIVE batteries of artil-
lery. In the battle Of Stone River KentaAky
Tennessee and Missouri furnished 80 regiments
Of iafaRtFy and cavalry and four batteries of
artillery. In the battle Of Chickamauga Ken
teeky, Tennessee and Missouri furnished 80
regiments OF infantry and cavalry and four
batteries Of artillery.
We OF Kentucky feel especial pride in the
action Of our grand cid Commonwealth. Let
as compare her quota with that Of other States
1t then appears she furnished more men than
either the States Of Maine Connecticut Iowa
or New Jersey. Nearly as many as New Hamp-
shire, Vermont and Rhode Island together. As
many as both Maryland aud Tennessee. Nearly
as many as California, Kansas Minnesota and
Vest Virginia all told, and within few hun
dred of the great States of Wisconsin or Michi-
gam. She furnished more men than enlisted in
the Regular Army during the war; as many as
Sherman had when he began the Atlanta cam
paign, or Meade commanded at Gettysburg
and quite as many as the combined armies of
Grant and Buell. at Shiloh. She lost more men
killed and wounded and deaths from wounds
and disease than the total loss at Shiloh, or
AnIaetam, or Fredericksburg, or Stone River
or Chickamauga, OF the Wilderness, or the
seven daES battle ending at Malvern Hill. and
but few hundred less than at the culminat-
ing battle Of the war, Gettysburg She lost
more men killed IN battle than all the Regular
regiments and batteries in the service Her
battaliOns and batteries 5eTved in the Armies of
the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee and
the Gulf The blood of her heroic dead en-
riehed every battlefield Of the South and West
The graves OF her gallant SONS stretch from the
Ohio 10 the Rio Grande, and mark every Ma
tional Cemetery established in the wake of
these mighty campaigns of the past.
Who among US can forget Robert Anderson
Of Sumter fame; or that grand sailor, Gen VIM
Nelson, who saved the day at Shiloh; or Crit
tenceD, Wood and Rousseau, Generals of splen-
did fame; OF Fry, the hero Of Mill Spring; or
CroxtOn, Hobson, Long, hurry, Wolford and
Burbridge, rough riders all or the gallant
Saunders, dead on the ramparts of Knoxville:
or Whitaker, fiery as the untamed Cossack of
the Don.
Kentucky was drained of her young men in
ante-bellum days. The States of Indiana. Illi-
nois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Kansas are
dotted with their homes When we consider
the number Of soldiers she furnished the armies
Of the Union. and add to these nearly as many
furnished the Confederacy; that I35 engage
nents we're fought within her borders may we
not well conclude that as of old, she is yet the
dark and bloody groundn2