[Texas Mulerider]

...to excite the non-slaveowning rabble into their service?

Horace Greeley, upon learning of the results of the battle of Chancellorsville:

"My God, it is horrible. Horrible. And to think of it -- 130,000 magnificent soldiers so cut to pieces by less than 60,000 half-starved ragamuffins."*

Whether "rabble," or "ragamuffins," it is well for the Feds that there weren't more of them.

* Foote, Vol. 2, p.315

[Non-Sequitur]

Whether "rabble," or "ragamuffins," it is well for the Feds that there weren't more of them

They got their comeuppance two months later at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.