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The ranks melted away, and there were neither resource nor discipline to fill them again.
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Blaine illustrates the disintegration of the Confederate ranks due to lack of resources and discipline.
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I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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