These figures are tossed around so easily. Can these be verified? and if so were they rounded too far up or down just to make the case? The quote here:
...Southern blacks supplied close to 150,000 Union soldiers and sailors (Northern free blacks provided another 50,000). Border South whites added 200,000 and Confederate State whites 100,000 soldiers to Union troop strength. The resulting total of 450,000 Southerners who wore Union blue, half as many of the 900,000 Southerners who wore Confederate gray, replaced every one of the Federals’ 350,000 slain men and supplied 100,000 more men besides – a number greater than the usual size of Robert E. Lee’s main Confederate army..."
From author William W. Freehling’s preface to his 2001 book “The South vs The South”
Dan Wykes
(p.s. if you comment please don't elaborate on the "Robert E. Lee" part of it, or you risk a spanking and a shut down)
...Southern blacks supplied close to 150,000 Union soldiers and sailors (Northern free blacks provided another 50,000). Border South whites added 200,000 and Confederate State whites 100,000 soldiers to Union troop strength. The resulting total of 450,000 Southerners who wore Union blue, half as many of the 900,000 Southerners who wore Confederate gray, replaced every one of the Federals’ 350,000 slain men and supplied 100,000 more men besides – a number greater than the usual size of Robert E. Lee’s main Confederate army..."
From author William W. Freehling’s preface to his 2001 book “The South vs The South”
Dan Wykes
(p.s. if you comment please don't elaborate on the "Robert E. Lee" part of it, or you risk a spanking and a shut down)
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