The world: historical and actual . who began his privateering in command of theSumter, but who became best known in connec-tion with the famous Alabama which he commanded,and which was built for privateering by 260 Englishmerchants. The second year of the war was stillmore favorable tothe. Confederatecause than the is wide di-vergence of opin-ion between South-ern and Northernwriters as to thenumber of men oncither side and theresult of many ofthe engagements in ^which no very de-rided advantage was gained by citll- Raphael semmes. cr army ; but there is agreement as to the general
The world: historical and actual . who began his privateering in command of theSumter, but who became best known in connec-tion with the famous Alabama which he commanded,and which was built for privateering by 260 Englishmerchants. The second year of the war was stillmore favorable tothe. Confederatecause than the is wide di-vergence of opin-ion between South-ern and Northernwriters as to thenumber of men oncither side and theresult of many ofthe engagements in ^which no very de-rided advantage was gained by citll- Raphael semmes. cr army ; but there is agreement as to the generalfact that the first and second years of the war madeexhibits in their balance sheets in favor of theConfederacy. It is stated that there were about- 3,000,000 slaveswithin the limits of the Confederate states whenthe Proclamation of Emancipation was issued. Thewhite population was about 5,000,000, as against22,000,000 whites and 1,000,000 blacks within theUnion. From the beginning of 1863 the Confeder-.
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