The forces which Lee and Johnston surrendered contained so many boys unfitted by youth and so many men unfitted by age for military service, that a Northern General epigrammatically remarked that for its armies the Confederacy had been compelled in the end to rob alike the cradle and the grave.
Blaine reflects on the desperate measures taken by the Confederacy during the Civil War, highlighting the youth and age of soldiers.
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