The Raleigh (N.C) Progress gives an estimate of the number of men enlisted in the South, and either killed or disabled during the war.\u00a0\u00a0 Totals– Enlistments\u00a0 1, 124,000\u00a0 — Dead and disabled\u00a0 — 660,000<\/p>\n
Is it not an awful computation ?\u00a0 — and yet this frightful number probably far below and actual aggregate!\u00a0 How terrible a price the South has paid for her madness!\u00a0 How great is the crime of the few reckless and ambitious\u00a0 politicians who led the led the people into this wicked rebelion!<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Liberator<\/em>,\u00a0 Oct. 20, 1865, pg 3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Raleigh (N.C) Progress gives an estimate of the number of men enlisted in the South, and either killed or disabled during the war.\u00a0\u00a0 Totals– Enlistments\u00a0 1, 124,000\u00a0 — Dead…<\/p>\n