On the other side they put down the best estimate they could make of all these things in the Northern States.

The Northern States made two (or I shouldn't wonder if it were three) times as good a showing in men and resources as the Confederacy had.

'Judge,' said my father, 'this is the most foolhardy enterprise that man ever undertook.' But Yancey of Alabama was about that time making five-hour speeches to thousands of people all over the South, declaring that one Southerner could whip five Yankees, and the awful slaughter began and darkened our childhood and put all our best men where they would see the sun no more.

Our people had at last to accept worse terms than they could have got at the beginning.

This World War, even more than our Civil War, is an economic struggle.