The American conflict - a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 - it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, (14781398494)

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Title: The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery
Publisher: Hartford : O.D. Case & Co. Chicago : Geo. & C.W. Sherwood
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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s bad; but I canmake another General in 5 minutes. When General Hooker assumed*command of the Army of the Poto-mac, its spirit and efficiency were ata very low ebb. Desertions were atthe rate of 200 per day; soldiersclandestinely receiving citizens cloth-ing by express from relatives andothers to facilitate their efforts toescape from a service wherein theyhad lost all heart. The numbershown by the rolls to be absent fromtheir regiments was no less than 2,922officers and 81,964 non-commission-ed ° officers and soldiers—many ofthem in hospitals, on leave, or detach-ed on duty; but a majority, probably,had deserted. The frequency, auda-city, and success, of the Rebel cavalryraids that Winter forcibly indicatethe elation and confidence felt on oneside, the apathy, born of despon-dency, on the other. Superior as its enormous total probably includes all who haddeserted from the regiments composing thatarmy since they were severally organized, aawell as the sick and wounded in hospitals.
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HOOKERS ADVANCE —STONEMANS ORDERS. 353 numbers still were, it is questionaLlcthat this army was a full match, onequal ground, for its more homoge-neous, better disciplined, more self-assured, more determined antagonist. Gen. Hooker very properly de-voted the two ensuing months to im-proving the discipline, perfecting theorganization, and exalting the spiritof his men; with such success thathe had, before their close, an armyequal in numbers and efficiency toany ever seen on this continent, ex-cept that which Gen. McClellan com-manded during the first three monthsof 1861. Its infantry was nearly, ifnot quite, 100,000 strong ; its artillerynot less than 10,000, every way wellappointed; while its cavalry, number-ing 13,000, needed only a fair fieldand a leader to prove itself the mosteffective body of horsemen ever brig-aded on American soil. Horses andforage having both become scarce inthe South, there was not, and neverhad been, any cavalry force connectedwith any Rebel army that cou