The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-18
-ocra In the American Civil

volunteers In the American Civil
War.
Thirty armies like that which Han.
nlbal led across the Alps against tn /.
Romans could have been masscd from
the regiments of the American CIvi:
War.
julius Caesar, In leading his armie.
against the forces OF Pompey In Spain
lid not have the lighting strength that
stonewair jackson brought down
the Shenandoah Valley in his campaIyn
and the Icgona Of Pompcy were les.
than those OF Mcclellan.
Frederick the Great. In the b.gin-
ming OF his Seven Years War, did moi
marshal an army equal In strength to
the combined Anne ricans who gathered
under sherman and flood in the cam.
paign against Atlanta. or under Lee and
burnside at Fredericksburg.
True Magnitude of the Wnr FIFTY Year.
William the Conqueror waScd his
conquest Of England with armies in.
fArior in strength to Grant at shiloh,
or Pore at Bull Run. or B.agg at
Chicknmausn, or Meade at Gettys-
burg.
GnribalJI in his last battle Of the
Siciiian campaign, was outnunltercd by
the hghting forces OF either Thomas
at Nashville. or Johnston at Fair Oaks,
or OF Beonregard at Shiloh.
Cromwell led against Tn. Scots an
army OF Lesser numerical strength than
those who were left dead and wounded
by Hooker al Chuncel orsyille. or by
Rosecrans at stones River.
Wellington entered the battle OF Wa
terioo against the great Napoleon with
an army UNEQUAL in numbers 10 tina,
which Mcclellan carried through toe
Seven Days campaign or that Of
Grant in the Wilderness. at Cold Har-
Dor. at Spotsylvania, or IN the cam
paign which vanqulshed Lee at Apo
mattox.
Mara,hon-we look back upon it
through tho mists OF romance and le-
gend; still there were volunteers
enough In the American Civil War &c
form two hundred and seventy armies
greater than that Of the Gre .ks when
they drove the Persians into Asia
ON the Worlds Grcut Battle Grounds
Hastings-what a shroud OF knight
hood hovers over that battlefield; and
yet thcr. were more wounded taken
TO single military hospital in the
American Civil War than gathered
under the standard OF King Harold of
England when he los, his life and his
kingdom In battle against the Duke of
Normandy.
orieans-the nam. brings with 1T
the chlvary OF old France. but there
were moro lives lost In single bat
tie Of the American civil War than
fought under the inspira;io Of Joan
dare 30 save tn. realm from being
CONQUERED BY the English.
Blenheom-w where the French and the
Bavnrians were driven back by the
English under the Duk. OF Marlbor-
ough; the single State of Massachusetts
which was but ono OF the forty-two
States and Territories that sent its
volunteers to the American C!gii War.
furnished NOR troops than the com
bined armies on the field OF Blcnheim.
Watcrloo--w what mighty pageant
sweeps before the imaginstion-foI
one moment one can almost the
great Napoleon. conquered at last by
the Duke OF Wellington and Butcher
and yet the combined armies al Wa
,erloo wer: q hundred thousand less
than the citizen soldlcry sent 10 bat.
tie from the State OF Now York alone
during the American Civil War.
The American Revolution. which es-
tablished the great republic on the
Western Hemisphere. becomes almost
insignificant IN military grandeur
when compared with the battles and
sieges Of the American Civil War which
cemented the States into "A perpetuai
brotherhood
This Is tho Real Cost OF War.
There wera tao soldiers left killed