The courier-index., 1919-10-17

It was with Lee so it was with Johnston, Jackson, Gordon, Forrest and host of other gallant lead CTS and the rank and file os the Confederate armies. As liberty un- sheathed it's sword so she stained theirs, and l have no apology at this day to make for it..
 With banners flying and bands playing the South went to war, not 10 perpetuate slavery as has been asserted by the northern historian. out for a principle, their rights under the constitution, the basic foundaton of the American Repub- lie handed down by the fathers never questioning the justice of their cause;s never doubting their ability to win; never dreaming of defeat; never thinking of disaster, relying for Success upon the ef- forts of as gallant an army as ever marched and fought beneath she banners of war. An army which, i'll clad and scantily fed, defed the combined forces of many nations for four long years and upheld upon their bloody .bayonets the fortunes of a storm cradled na- ton. In proof of this assertion of the personnel of the Federal army, l give you these facts as taken from the records of the War De- partment at Washington, as com piled by MT. Casinove Lee, an ac curate and recognized authority on civil war statistics. MT. Lee states that the South furnished 600, 900 soldiers for the Confederate armies and 316,424 white soldiers to the Federal armies; there were 186,- O17 negroes in the northern army, and most of them came from the South. The North got 176,8OO sol diers from Germany, 144,2OO from ireland, $500 British Americans. 45,5OO Englishmen and TABOO from other foreign nationalities. If to all of these we add the 186,O17 ne- groes we have a total of 68O,917. Thus the foreigners and the negroes alone outnumbered the total strength of the Confederate army by 8O,000, and to this number of 680,917 of foreigners and negroes you add the 316,424 recreant south erners we have a total of 998,613. mus the outside" assistance re- ceived by the North was 66 per cent greater than the entire strength of the Confederate armies. But in addition to this, the coun- try outside of the Southern states contributed 1,779,691 soldiers to the Federal army, so it took 2,778,3O4 men gathered from the North. East, South and West in the United States, England, Ireland, British America, Germany and Flu rope to defeat the 600,0O0 soldiers who formed the legions of the lost cause, so called. An army of 600, ,OO0 men which held at bay a force of nearly five to one for four years and only succumbed when exhaust- ed nature gave way for want of food and raiment. An army which fought the most gigantic war of modern tines, with the exception of the recent war just closed, and at which the whole world stood aghast at the slaughter. Up to that time the mortality statistics of battle averaged from to 10 per cent. In the battle of Shiloh, where the Confederates were the assailants, their loss was little over 30 per cent; in the battle of Murfreesboro, where they again attacked, their loss was 34 per cent; in the battle of Chickamauga their loss was 35 per cent; in the battle of Gettys- burg, B 1-3 per cent; in the battle of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House, from the 4th to the 18th of May, when Grant assailed and Lee defended, the loss of the Federal army was greater than the combined loss of the colonies in the French and Indian wars, the Rsvo- lutionary war, the war of 1915 and the Mexican war. At the opening of this campaign General Lee had 60,000 men opposed to 150,000 men under General Grant. In the bat ties from the Wilderness to Peters burg, the Federal army lost 6O,O00 killed and wounded, or about 40 per cent of it's number. Such an exhibition of valor proved our op-