. Minutes . or their the world is going to say of the Confederate States be-comes a great problem to the men who were engaged in thatcontest. Tt may be true that the passion and prejudice haddimmed a while the brightness of Southern glory ; but it was onlyfor a while, and then prejudice and passion and hate sank beforethe resurrection of truth. This country needs the record of the Confederate soldierto make full and complete the narrative of its greatness andits renown. History now is bound to say that the men of HieConfederacy were neither outfought nor outgeneraled. Theywe
. Minutes . or their the world is going to say of the Confederate States be-comes a great problem to the men who were engaged in thatcontest. Tt may be true that the passion and prejudice haddimmed a while the brightness of Southern glory ; but it was onlyfor a while, and then prejudice and passion and hate sank beforethe resurrection of truth. This country needs the record of the Confederate soldierto make full and complete the narrative of its greatness andits renown. History now is bound to say that the men of HieConfederacy were neither outfought nor outgeneraled. Theywere outnumbered; they had less of resources than those theyfought; but in the end the most men, the longest cannon, thegreatest abundance of food settled the issue. The North hadthree armies in the held, each of which was equal to all theConfederates enlisted, and the record in the face of such oddswon on the battlefields and on the march by the Confederatesoldier did all that honor could demand. No armies of which. b4 96 Twentieth Reunion, Mobile, Ala., April 26, 27 and 2S\ 1910. history contains any account ever did such prolonged and des-perate fighting. The victors of one great battle were to be thedead soldiers in the next. Renown upon one battlefield was onlyassurance that in the next, which in the very nature of thingswould be only a short time, a majority of those who had wonthe laurels of heroism must die. The stoiy of the Light Brigade as told in verse has beenborne around the world, and wherever it is read it inspires andthrills the soldiers of all nations. In the superb charge fromwhich it won immortality there was a loss in killed and woundedof 3( per cent. There were more than eighty Federal regi-ments which lost over fifty per cent in one battle. The heaviestloss in the Franco-Prussian War was at Mars-la-Tour, whenthe Westphalian Regiment lost seventy-nine per cent. TheFirst Texas at Sharpsburg lost per cent; the 21st Georgia atManassas, 76 per cent; the 2
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