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Title: Stonewall Jackson and the American civil war
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Henderson, G. F. R. (George Francis Robert), 1854-1903
Subjects: Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863
Publisher: London (etc.) Longman, Green
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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om, crushed by military absolutism, the prostrationof each and all to an irresponsible despot had paralysedindividual energy. Spain, on the other hand, without anarmy and without a ruler, but deriving new strength fromeach successive defeat, first taught Napoleon that he was notinvincible. And the same spirit of liberty which inspiredthe people of the Peninsula inspired, to an even higherdegree, the people of the Confederate States. The Northern States, moreover, were about to make anew departure in war. The manhood of a country has oftenbeen called upon to defend its borders ; but never beforehad it been proposed to invade a vast territory with acivilian army, composed, it is true, of the best blood in theRepublic, but without the least tincture of military expe-rience. Nor did the senior officers, professionals though theywere, appear more fitted for the enterprise than the menthey led. The command of a company or squadron againstthe redskins was hardly an adequate probation for the
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i THE RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH 111 command of an army,^ or even a brigade, of raw troopsagainst a well-armed foe. Had the volunteers been asso-ciated with an equal number of trained and disciplinedsoldiers, as had been the case in Mexico,^ they would havederived both confidence from their presence, and stabilityfrom their example ; had there been even an experiencedstaff, capable of dealing with large forces, and an efficientcommissariat, capable of rapid expansion, they might havecrushed all organised opposition. But only 3,000 regularscould be drawn from the Western borders; the staff was asfeeble as the commissariat; and so, from a purely militarypoint of view, the conquest of the South appeared impossible.Her self-sustaining power was far greater than has beenusually imagined. On the broad prairies of Texas, Arkansas,and Louisiana ranged innumerable herds. The area undercultivation was almost equal to that north of the Potomacand the Ohio. The pastoral districts—the beautiful Vall

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