The Life of William a Buckingham the War Governor of Connecticut With a Revie
The Life of William a Buckingham the War Governor of Connecticut With a Revie
Samuel G Samuel Giles Buckingham
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100 per cent, premium in the Confederate capital. General Lee, as well as General Grant, has been criti- cised for his wasteful expenditure of men in the war. It seems awful in either case, to talk deliberately about the ex})enditure of so many human lives to win a battle. And the only justification can be that some things, like human liberty, and good government, and true religion, are worth even more than life itself, and may be exchanged the one for the other. And even the severities of war ...are somewhat palliated by the sharpness that makes it shorter. It is, however, rather on the ground of lack of wisdom than of inhumanity that General Lee is censured. That he should have been so prodigal of his brave and well-disciplined troops as to require two of his commanders, Hill and Magruder, to sacrifice 5, 000 of their "effective men" in crossing the Chickahominy, and of Longstreet 6, 000 more at Malvern Hill, accomplishing nothing as their commander says, and insisting upon Pickett's " last charge" at Gettys- burg, when "more than 2, 000 were killed and wounded to no effect in scarcely thirty minutes, " as the corps com- mander admits, * when it might have been known as well then as afterwards that the Confederacy never could replace * (See " War Book, Vol.
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