Whitelaw Reid: “The South never was exhausted of men, sir; there were plenty of them…”

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The South never was exhausted of men, sir; there were plenty of them everywhere.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid asserts that the South was not lacking in men during the Civil War, countering narratives of exhaustion.

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Whitelaw Reid: “The South never was exhausted of men, sir; there were plenty of them everywhere.”