Before the war was over, further conscriptions took those between fourteen and eighteen years of age as junior reserves, and those between forty-five and sixty as senior reserves.

It would have been an offence, directly after the war, and perhaps it would be now, to ask any able-bodied man in the South, who was between the ages of fourteen and sixty at any time during the war, whether he had been in the Confederate army.

He would assert that he had, or account for his absence from the ranks.

Under such circumstances it is hard to conceive how the North showed such a superiority of force in every battle fought.

I know they did not.
During 1862 and '3, John H.Morgan, a partisan officer, of no military education, but possessed of courage and endurance, operated in the rear of the Army of the Ohio in Kentucky and Tennessee.