The century illustrated monthly magazine . VALOR AND SKILL IN THE CIVIL I. WAS EITHER THE BETTER SOLDIER? HERE appears to have beengathered, by many of thereaders of the war litera-ture of the day, a distinctlyerroneous impression tothe effect that the Southfought better than theNorth ; or, to put it in an-other way, that the Southerner was the bettersoldier. Those who have well studied the sub-ject, or who intelligently served through thewar, do not share this opinion; but there is,in the events of the war, superficially consid-ered, a certain basis for the assumption. Thishas, however,
The century illustrated monthly magazine . VALOR AND SKILL IN THE CIVIL I. WAS EITHER THE BETTER SOLDIER? HERE appears to have beengathered, by many of thereaders of the war litera-ture of the day, a distinctlyerroneous impression tothe effect that the Southfought better than theNorth ; or, to put it in an-other way, that the Southerner was the bettersoldier. Those who have well studied the sub-ject, or who intelligently served through thewar, do not share this opinion; but there is,in the events of the war, superficially consid-ered, a certain basis for the assumption. Thishas, however, its very clear limitations. The South had a certain task to accomplish,and certain means to accomplish it with. TheNorth had its larger task, and larger we will carefully consider what these respect-ive tasks were, and the manner of their work-ing out, it will appear as a result that theNorth performed its gigantic undertaking notonly in a creditable and businesslike manner,but in a manner which will stand the test ofhistorical comparison. It is not difficult to
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