The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-25
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] GenGIalIN
I known and rather startling facts in
his Fighting BY Southern Federals."
recently issued by the Neale Publish
/ ing Company, and showing the part
( taken by Southerners in the cause Of
/ the Union in the War Between the
States.
Mr.. Anderson, who is a Richmond
/ publisher, and brother of Professor
/ Anderson. of Richmond College. in
/ giving the mass of facts which the
/ book contains had in view as one of
j the purposes the bringing about of a
( more perfect understanding among
Federals and Confederates and the
promotion Of the era Of good feel
ing He shows that on both sides
We're rnen who fought according to
conviction and that the fighting
neither for the Union army nor for
the southern army was done wholly
by people of the respective sections
If the fighting Southerners who
fought in the Federal army, as
privates inferior officers. as COM
manders of brigades and as naval
anders-Farragut was one of
the latter-and Thomas. the Rock Of
Chicamauga, one of the former, had
fought in the Confederate army the
independence of the Confederacv
/ would have been established He
shows that the North owes much To
Southerners for the preservation OF
the Union, and that many Southern
States gave more men to the Federal
army than some OF the Northern
States. For instance Louisiana
furnished more Federal combatants
than Rhode Island; Virginia more
than Minnesota; Tennessee more than
New Hampshire, Missouri more than
Wisconsin, or Michigan, or New Jersey
/ or Iowa, or Maine. or Connecticut or
Vermont, or Minnesota, or New
Hampshire, or Rhode Island. More
than 100000 of the I09. 600 Mis-
sourians were white. Tennessee furu-
ished more than New Hampshire, or
Vermont. or Minnesota, or Rhode Is
land Kentucky more than Con-
neticut, or Main. or Rhode Island
The outhor places the numerical
strength of the armies that fought
for the Confederacy at approximately
1000, GOO men, and shows that 296.-
$40 white soldiers living In the South.
and l3T676 colored soldiers and ap-
proximately goo, 600 men living in the
North that were born in the South
making 634.255 Southern soldiers
fought for the preservation of the
! Union The South was not conquer
ed says the author nor WAS she
Inundated, Lee, fighting a Southern
army nearly two-thirds as great as
his own and a Northern army nearly
three times greater, was never be-
fore shown to such advantage Ma
poleon and his armies never did so
well. No like record can be found
in all the annals of time.
Historians have been generous In
recording the great deeds OF the
Southerners whose hearts and for
tunes were given to the Confederacy.
and to the Southerners who gave
their lives for the Confederacy as well
as their hearts and their fortunes,
but until this book was written no
historian has recorded the debt that
the North owed to Southern men
Farragut was from Tennessee; Robert
Anderson, Of Fort Sumter fame, was
from Kentucky, Bates Of Lincoln's
cabinet, was from Virginia; Blair,
postmaster general OF the United
states was from Kentucky. Thomas
among the North's greatest generals
was from Virginia. The South sup
piled eighty naval commanders to the
Northern cause. But the Southern
commanders Of the Federal armies
are counted by hundreds in this book
Mr.. Anderson has performed n
service to history in this book al the
greater service of showing that many
Southern States furnished more men
than some of the States in which still
linger feelings of hostility TO the
South. Pension rolls flourish in the
North, but the South fought the bat
tlesg of both sides,
Two other books of historical value
have recently come from the press
of the Neale Publishing company.
both dealing with campaigns OF the
War Between the States These are
Antietam and the Maryland and Vir-
ginia Campaigns of 1852, by Isaac
w. Heysinger, and the Attack and
Oliver Wilcox Norton.
Mr.. Norton gives us an interest
ing, instructive and accurate history
of that great struggle of July 2, 1863.
The story of the conflict at Gettys-
burg. immortalized by the heroic
Picketts division, has always been
one of absorbing interest to the
world and it viii welcome a pain
stalking account of the assault on
Little Round Top, the most important
position in the country at the high
tide of the conflict between the North
and the South which sacrifices moth