Identifier: developmentofame02fish (find matches)
Title: The development of American nationality
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Fish, Carl Russell, 1876-1932
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Publisher: New York, American Book Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n with those of the North. Of the 31,443,321 in-habitants of the whole United States in i860, the elevenseceding states contained only 9,103,342. Of this number,3,689,833 were slaves or free negroes, leaving 5,413,509 whitepersons to compare with over 22,000,000 in the North.The South drew perhaps 40,000 more fighting men fromMaryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, than the North drewfrom West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, butthe disproportion between the sections remained over-whelming. The southern population, however, furnishedadmirable material for war. Two types of southern soldiersare represented by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.Lee was born to the best traditions of Virginia. Connectedby family ties with Washington, he represented the samecharacteristics — administrative ability, chivalric devotionto the public good, and dignity of character. Handsome,well set up, well bred, and with a comprehensive thought-fulness which omitted not the smallest detail of army life
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Robert E. Lee ECONOMIC RESOURCES 375 or the personal welfare and happiness of the common soldieror the soldiers widow, he was the ideal of the southerngentlemen who officered much of the army and formedmuch of its cavalry. Stonewall Jackson came of therough and vigorous stock of the mountain and piedmont,the old frontier region. Prejudiced, and of narrow experience,he brought to the work an intense conviction of the righteous-ness of his cause, and inspired his troops with a fervor re-sembling that of Cromwells Ironsides. He representedthe spirit that made southern infantry a marvel to militaryobservers. The population of the South was more accus-tomed than that of the North to the use of firearms and ofhorses, and to following certain natural leaders, and conse-quently a military organization was more quickly effected.The disproportion in population, however, soon began to tell,and the southern Congress was forced, in April, 1862, to resortto conscription; gradually extending the age

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