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The Days of a Man C1912 



Carolina, who in answer to my question as to war 

 selection in his state declared that the loss of the best 

 in war explained why such a man as was then in office 

 could be chosen governor, the country aristocracy 

 having faded away. 

 In the In Kentucky my daughter and I spent a couple of 



!!!J3''" days with a Stanford classmate of hers, May Gresham, 

 now the wife of David Prewett, a wealthy farmer at 

 Winchester, Clark County, the heart of the "blue- 

 grass region" and the center of horse and cattle in- 

 dustry. This section suffered relatively little from 

 the war in spite of the fact that both armies were re- 

 cruited from its population. 



Certain generalizations to which most of our 

 correspondents gave at least partial assent are 

 summed up below: 



Of the states of the Union, Virginia and North Carolina 

 probably suffered most in the Civil War. Virginia furnished 

 165,000 soldiers out of a population (excluding West Virginia) 

 of 1,154,304. North Carolina gave 133,905, of which number 

 42,000 were killed or wounded. The number of voters in 

 North Carolina in 1861 was only 115,000, the population 

 992,622. In each case about 14 per cent of the popula- 

 tion, first and last, went to war. The University of Vir- 

 ginia enlisted almost as a body and suffered accordingly. Of 

 the students in the University of North Carolina from 1850 to 

 1862, 842 or 57 per cent enlisted in the Confederate Army; 312 

 of them (34 per cent) fell in service. 



The Union Army contained 296,597 white and 137,676 

 colored soldiers from the South, besides about 200,000 others who 

 had enlisted in Northern regiments. 



The leading men of the South were part of select companies 

 of militia; these were first to enlist. The flower of the people 

 went into the war at the beginning, and a large part of them 

 (20 to 40 per cent) died before the end. War took chiefly the 



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