Word: southern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good audience listened last night to Col. Douglas' lecture on the "Southern Volunteer." He considered the northern and southern soldier together from the beginning of the war to the end, showing the different conditions under which the Confederate enlisted and the unfailing disadvantages under which he fought with his northern adversary...
...numbers equipment, and supplies of all kinds the northern far surpassed the southern army. Nearly the whole of the southern army was American, while one third of the Federals were foreign born. Bounties and high pay aided much in enlisting Union men, while simply love of the "cause" without hope of glory or reward collected the southern troops...
...latter causes must be attributed the dash and vigor of his fighting. But this attribute did not exist alone. Nor can one say that the southern volunteer did not possess perseverance and patience under hardship. The long marches, short battles and wonderful retreats showed his abilities in this line in Stonewall Jackson's brilliant campaigns...
...drew a vivid picture of the end. The Union soldier went back to his home his flag floating proudly above him, his uniform honored his native village untouched by the horrors of war. On the other hand the flag and tattered uniforms of the Confederate disappeared forever, and the southern volunteer went back to a devastated country with property lost, his cause disgraced, and nothing left him but weary years of reconstruction and memories of his bloody...
This evening Col. Douglas will deliver the third lecture of the course, given under the auspices of the Historical Society, in Sanders. His subject, "The Southern Volunteer," gives promise of an interesting discourse, and those who heard the lecture, two years ago, on "The Northern Volunteer." by Col. Livermore, will be able to make valuable comparisons. A portrayal of the soldier of the South in the recent war is sure to be instructive to an assemblage of Northern people. New impressions will doubtless be received, and false impressions are likely to be corrected...