The Texan, unlike the name of Texan immediately after the war, when that country was the city of refuge for every murderer and cut-throat of the land, were gallant, chivalrous, and gentlemanly soldiers.  Descendants of bold and adventurous spirits from every State in the South, they were equally bold and daring in battle, and scorned the very word of fear or danger.  Hood’s old Texas Brigade shared honors with the old Stonewall Brigade in endurance, courage, and obstinacy in action.  The soldiers of Texas were tenacious, aggressive, and bold beyond any of their brethren of the South.

The Tennesseeans, true to the instincts of their “back woods” progenitors, were kind-hearted, independent, and brimful of courage.  Driven from their homes and firesides by a hostile foe, they became a “storm center” in battle.  They were combative and pugnacious, and defeat had no effect upon their order, and they were ever ready to turn and strike a foe or charge a battery.  Their courage at Chickamauga is distinguished by showing the greatest per cent of killed and wounded in battle that has even been recorded, the charge of the Light Brigade not excepted, being over forty-nine per cent.

What is said of the Tennesseeans is equally true of the Arkansans.  Of a common stock and ancestry, they inherited all the virtues and courage of their forefathers.  The Confederacy had no better soldiers than the Arkansans—­fearless, brave, and oftentimes courageous beyond prudence.

The border States’ soldiers, Missourians, Kentuckians, and Marylanders, were the free lance of the South.  They joined the fortunes of the South with the purest motives and fought with the highest ideals.  Under Forrest and Morgan and the other great riders of the West, they will ever be the soldiers of story, song, and romance.  Their troops added no little lustre to the constellation of the South’s great heroes, and when the true history of the great Civil War shall be written, they will be remembered.  Indomitable in spirits, unconquerable and unyielding in battle, they will ever stand as monuments to the courage of the Southern Army.

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THE MAGNITUDE OF THE WAR—­ITS LOSSES IN KILLED AND DIED.

What were the Confederate losses during the war?  Where are the Confederate dead?  Which State lost the most soldiers in proportion to the number furnished the war?  These are questions which will perhaps be often asked, but never answered.  It can never be known, only approximately.  The cars containing the Confederate archives were left unguarded and unprotected at Greensboro on its way from Richmond, until General Beauregard noticed papers from the car floating up and down the railroad track, and had a guard placed over them and sent to Charlotte.  There was a like occurrence at this place, no protection and no guard, until General Johnston had them turned over to the Federal authorities for safe keeping.  Consequently, the Confederate rolls on file in Washington are quite incomplete, and the loss impossible to ever be made good.