The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-10-27
rhe unlon bad confederate ArmIes.

In the union army Aicic Nti' VI
listed l9i, 900 foreigners, 1907 ne
groes, making a total OF foreigners and
negroes Of 6SO,Ol7,-if the United
States had not enlisted single white
American citizen its armies would
have outnumbered the total enlist
ment Of the Confederate by sO,Ol7
men, larger number than Lee ever
had perhaps at any time.
From the ceceded States the Union
army enlisted 3l7,7l4 men. These
added TO the foreign enlistment made
ST., IA, OF 2ll,7l4 soldiers, exclusive
Of negroes, in excess Of the total en-
listment during the four years Of the
Confederate forces. Add TO this eX-
cess the negro enlistment and you
have BOZ, 73l more men than the Con-
federates had all told, from the begin
ming TO the end IfnOt asingle white
American citizen from the Northern,
Eastern, or Western States had ever
put his name down or fired a gun,
there still would have been in the
Union army 397,7 49, more men than
the Southern army, according to its
total enlistment, all told, ever had.
To this excess add the troops from
the non-seceding States nearly 2,OOO,-
OOO-and you have 2,l7S,30i men, or
p, 1880 more men than the South
mustered from first to last.
Ii is astounding TO know and con
slider that the Union army had a
many soldiers as the Southern army,
and in addition thereto >, l7S,3O more.
Marvellous disparity in numbers
When we consider the advantages
these millions had in provisions,
transporlations, munitions and all
other martial resources, the simple
story becomes more and more amaz-
ing.
When the war began the COnfed-
crate soldier had to do with such
weapons as he could hastily lay his
hands upon lie had to whip the
yankees to get guns TO fight them
with, and oftentimes he had to de-
pend on the enemies commissary de-
partment for his ratons.
imagine ! have Jeen i'm the Eter-
nal City, surrounded by the deathless
relics and monuments which com
memorate the glorious achievements
Of the citizens and soldiers Of ancient
Rome Il have faced the aisles of that
stately church in which Venice has
piled up the splendid memorials in
brass and in marble Of the men who
made her name great in Europe, who
made her to sit as queen upon her
watery throne among the nations.
have stood under a dome in Paris,
on the spot upon which France has
lavished with unstinted hand her
wealth and her art TO shed glory upon
the name Of her greatest sOldier-his
sarcophagus reposes upon a pavement
Of costly marbles, gathered from all
quarters Of the globe, and so arranged
as TO represent sun Of glory irradi-
ating the name of the hero Of Merango
and Of the Pyramids of Jena and Of
Austerlitz, and ! have meditated in
awestruck silence beneath the fretted
roof Of Westminster Abbey, surround
ed by the almost countless memorial
marbles which twenty generations
Of Englishmen have erected to cele-
brate the fame of theirm most illustrious
kings and mobiles, soldiers and pa
triots, jurists and statesmen, poets
and historians, musicians and dra-
matists But on none of these occa-
sions have / been so impressed with
the patriotic and unselfsh devotion
that human nature is capable of as
when have contemplated the char
acter and the career of the private
soldier Of the Confederacy. Not for
fame OF for reward, not for place or
rank, not lured by ambition or goad-
ed by necessity, but in simple ODE
dience to duty, as they understood it,
these men that suffered all, sacrificed
all, dared all and died No stately
abbey will ever cover their remains.
Their dust will never repose beneath
fretted or frescoed roof, no costly
bronze will ever blazen their names
for posterity or honor; but the Poto-
mac and the Rappahannock, the
James and the Chickahomany, the
Cumberland and the Tennessee, the
Mississippi and the Rio Grande, as
they run their long race from the
mountains to the sea, will sing Of
the proves for evermore : The noun
tains Of Virginia, Tennessee and Geor-
gia will stand eternal witnesses Of
their yalor. IS"