Posted on 06/06/2021 7:28:35 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, June 5.
Mr. SANDERSON, late steward of the New-York Hotel, is in Washington, for the purpose of making manifest the importance of attaching to the army persons qualified to prepare the food for the men. There is no department in which so much can be done for the comfort and good being of the men as in the kitchen. Experienced cooks, attached to each regiment, would more than save their wages, besides serving the men much better than they can serve themselves. It is to be hoped that the Government will give heed to the suggestions made by Mr. SANDERSON, and afford him or some other competent person an opportunity to carry into practice the great improvements of which the culinary branch of the service is susceptible.
The President has finally determined to assign Gen. BANKS to duty in the field.
Efforts are bring made to create DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, of your City, a Major General in the regular service.
Messrs. DRAPER, SLOAN, ASTOR, MCCURDY and RICHARDS arrived in Washington this morning. They came as a Sub-Committee of the Union Defence Committee, to report to the Commander in-Chief the final discharge of the trusts imposed by the Government upon the Committee, of sending forward regiments of troops and munitions of war. It will be recollected that originally the President charged the Committee with the duty of sending fourteen regiments to the field. By an after arrangement, five of these regiments were transferred to the State. The remaining nine regiments have been sent forward according to the instructions of the Department, or are now awaiting orders, prepared to move at short notice. In announcing these results to the President, the Committee begged leave at the same time to offer these suggestions for the consideration of the Government.
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These articles unfortunately do not document the severe pandemic of war fever that gripped the entire country. Young men, with an overwhelming sense of martial excitement, not only rushed to enlist in the forming armies but actually worried that the fighting would be over before they could see action. Four years later over 600,000 young men were dead and over a million more were physically and psychologically maimed forever. The country would never be the same. In fact the genetic losses marked the beninning of the end of America’s Protestant core. Subsequent manpower and labor shortages in the coming industrial expansion reguired immigration fron Catholic southern and central Europe. America was transformed. It is again being transformed today.
And how many from Germany, France, England or Japan?
ZERO! You do the math.
So far as I can tell, only William T. Sherman in 1861 foresaw a very long & bloody war.
The Union's top general, Winfield Scott, predicted the war to be over in about a year, if no foreign interventions.
Northern newspapers, as you can see, are expecting to make quick work of pushing back Confederates in Virginia.
We'll see about that...
As for a "pandemic of war fever", in all about three million will serve during the war (USA 2 million, CSA 1 million), of whom "today" just over 100,000 have volunteered, meaning "war fever" has so-far overtaken only 3% of those who must eventually join.
allendale: "In fact the genetic losses marked the beninning of the end of America’s Protestant core. Subsequent manpower and labor shortages in the coming industrial expansion reguired immigration fron Catholic southern and central Europe.
America was transformed."
Ah... no... not really.
From 1860 to, say, 1930 the US population grew by 92 million (from 31 to 123 million), of whom ~1/3 were new immigrants (33 million).
Of those about 10 million arrived before 1890 and those were primarily Germans, Brits & Irish.
Reasonable estimate that half of those were Catholics.
After 1890 the locus of migration shifted to Southern (Italy) and Eastern (Russia-Hungary) Europe of whom again maybe half were Catholic, the rest Orthodox Christians and Jews.
And again, it was 20 million immigrants among the 60 million in population increase from 1890 to 1930.
The question is whether any of this was related to the loss of, perhaps, 600,000 young men in the Civil War?
Well, consider this: even with those losses, the US population increased from 1860 to 1870 at a faster pace than at any time since 1890.
So I don't see how the Civil War gets blamed for immigration from Southern Europe that began 30 years later.
As of today, Protestants still outnumber Catholics two-to-one, though "unaffiliated" is the #2 "religion" after Protestants.
And which religions today are more likely to vote Republican?
I think in this go around the confederates win.
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