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Excerpt from Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions From North Carolina in the Great War 1861-'65, Vol. 4: Written by Members of the Respective Commands
Then the Southern leaders were contemplating separa tion, they estimated largely upon the expectation that all the States South of Mason and Dixon's line, the Ohio and the northern boundary of Missouri would go with the South, in cluding Indian Territory and New Mexico. This would have given the new Confederacy nearly one-third of the pop ulation of the old Union. In this event there would have doubtless been a pcaceable separation and no war. But it proved that in the States of Maryland, Delaware, that part of Virginia since known as West'virginia, Kentucky and Blissouri, the majority were largely on the northern Side and there was no small defection among the whites in East Ten nessee and other localities, to say nothing of the colored refu gees who swelled the Union army. It is estimated that no less than men from the Southern side of the line above indicated served in the Federal armies which also con tained, besides the troops from the populous Northern States, a host of foreigners attracted by high bounties and good pay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
