MEDFOBD MAIL TBIBVNE, MEDFOBD. OREGON
MONDAY, MAY 1, 1M)
Suspended Army
Man Supported
Washington -fflW- The Sen
ate Aimed Services Commit-
; tee hat received about 200
messages supporting sus
pended U.S. general accused
of Indoctrinating hii troops
with the views of the contro-
. versial John Birch Society.
The committee has been
getting up to 25 telegrams and
a few letters daily, some sug-
i gesting that Congress inter-
' vene on behalf of MaJ. Gen.
; Sdwin A. Walker. The com
mittee, however, has not said
whether it would step Into the
; case. .
The telegraphic campaign
has appeared to be centered
in the New York City and
Shreveport, La., areas. It has
appeared to be organized-but
there has been nothing to link
it to the John Birch Society.
. Walker was relieved as com
mander of the 24th Infantry
Division in Germany by Army
Secretary Elvis Stahr "pend
ing the outcome of an official
, investlagtion of certain public
statements and actions pi Gen.
Walker."
ISpsGIVIL WAR'
Neither Side Ready To Fight
By MEHTON T. AKEBS
UPI Correspondent
The two sections of this
country which lined, up lor
war against each other In the
spring of 1861 had little to
fight with except green vol
unteers and enthusiasm. It
would be an improvised war
for a year.
The North had a small
standing army, the South
none. Neither side had enough
arms and equipment to fight
even a small battle before
mid-summer. Neither had a
general staff. Neither had a
war plan.
But both had volunteers
more than they could train
and equip. They came in ruf
fled shirts with body servants,
in jeans and brogans, some
carried inlaid fowling pieces,
some only an extra shirt. They
were eager to fight, panting
for glory for this was going
to be a short war, three
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months maybe so there'
wasn't much time. "Gimme
gun and let me at 'em," was
the general cry. -Onlr
a Few Aware
From the vantage point of
a century all this gasconade
common to other wars, too
seems amazing. But is was
very real to the volunteers
and to many of their leaders.
William Tecumseb Sherman
knew better and got into hot
water for saying so. Jefferson
Davis knew better, too. Old
Gen. Winfleld Scott was an
other. But these were voices
in the wilderness in the spring
of "61.
How did these two sections
of the same country shape up
as they raced to the firing
line?
The cold statistics give a
quick decision to the North
on paper. But soldiers don't
fight with statistics. Other lac
tors, less ponderable, enter
into the picture.
It victory always went to
the side with the moat bat
talions, then the United States
would not have won freedom
in 1T83, the Greeks would not
have turned back the Persians
and the ragamuffin army of
the French Revolution would
not have licked the Austrtans
and Prussians.
Imponderable Factors
Military men call these fac
tors imponderables, and the
Civil War is studded with
them.
In December, 1880, the U.S.
Army numbered IS ,259 en
listed men and 1,080 active
officers. Most of it was scat
tered among western frontier
posts, a few companies In
each. A colonel seldom, if
ever, saw his whole regiment
at one time.
Of the 1,080 officers on the
rolls in December, 1860, 313
resigned and went South,
many of them the best in the
Army. No enlisted man is re
corded as having gone over
to the Confederacy.
That was the Army Gen.
Scott had when the war be
gan. - ,.. .
Little To Start With '
The South had no army as
such, only militia companies,
plus the resigned officers. On
April 29, 1861, President Da
vis reported to the Provision
al Confederate Congress that
the C.S.A. had 10,000 men
under arms and 16,000 more
in Virginia, not technically
in the Confederacy on that
date. In March, 1861, the Con
federate Congress had author
ized an army not to exceed
100,000 men, but soon anoth
er 32,000 were authorized.
After the war, Brig. Gen
Jostah Gorgas, Confederate
chief of ordnance, estimated
that the South had 19,000 ri
fles and 120,000 muskets, with
fewer than 1 million cart
ridges and 00,000 pounds of
old cannon powder at the start
of hostilities. As tor cannon
he had only a few 1812 guns
and some old pieces belong'
ing to states and militia com
panies.
He summed up the South' s
position of arms and rounl
tlons like this:
"To furnish. 130,000 men on
May 1, 1861, there were on
hand no infantry accouter
ments, no cavalry arms or
equipment, and, above all, no
ammunition, nothing save
small arms and those almost
wholly smoothbore, altered
from flint to percussion."
The Harper's Ferry Arsenal
and the Norfolk Navy Yard
yielded some small arms,
some cannon and a store of
powder to Gorgas' little hoard
The North wax not In much
better shape for arms and
equipment at the start. It man
aged to equip with some sort
of arms the 77,000 volunteers
mustered In on Lincoln's call
for 75,000 men.
Both aides started at once
to comb out the arsenals of
MoIallaBuckaroo
President Dies
Heppner-SIFB-Molalla Buck-
eroo Association President
Ray Moran, 11, died at a hos
pital Saturday after falling
from a horse.
Craig Landeen, Canby, who
accompanied Moran to Hep
pner said Moran apparently
fell after suffering a heart at
tack. He was competing in a
cutting horse contest here at
the time.
Moran, who was born at
Hastings, Neb., was general
manager of A. T. Lowes Lum
ber Co., Molalla, for seven
years.
He is survived by a son and
daughter, a brother, and five
grandcmtden.
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OffLY ENTHUSIASM PLENTIFUL la the
spring of 1861, the two sections of the
country lined up lor war. Neither had much
to fight with except enthusiasm. Statistically
it appeared that the North could win a
the world and buy up all the
surplus arms on the market.
Northern, agents got there
ahead of the Confederates and
had mote money. They round
ed up slightly more than a
half-million rifles and mus
kets, many of them almost
useless. The South succeeded
In buying about 130,000,
la the sinews of war - ca
pacity to turn out arms, ac
couterments, uniforms and
food - the North had a big
edge on the South.
In population, the North
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Pittsburgh - HOT - Catholic
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out the United States will
gather here next Thursday for
the biennial convention of the
National Council of Catholic
Men. The convention ends
May T.
Hawaiian Sugar
Strike Postponed
. HarvoIuIu-ffft!-A strike that
could cripple more than half
of the Hawaii sugar Industry
has been postponed until mid
night Tuesday in hopes of
reaching a settlement.
Plantation workers, repre
sented by the International
Longshoremen's and Ware
housemen s U nlon, were
scheduled to walk out at mid-
night Sunday night. However,
Gov. William T. Qulnn nego
tiated a two-day postpone
ment. The sugar Industry's con
tract with the ILWU expired
three months ago. The indus
try refused to reinstate the
s
had more than a 2-to-l mar
gin. - 11,840,000 to ,ioo,coa,
including 3,500,000 slaves lor
the South. In manutaclurei of,
all kind the North's margin
was even greater - 1,300,000
workers in 110,000 establish
ments, with a product valued,
at $1,750,000,000 to 145,000
workers in 18,000 establish-1
ments with a product valued
at 1145,000,000 for the South.
In iron production Penn
sylvania alone turned out
about seven times as much
as the combined South.
Most Railroad In North
Less than 90 per cent of
31,239 miles of railroad was
In the South. The North had
three more or less continuous
lines from the Eastern Sea
board to the Mississippi. Most
of the South' railroads ran
north and south. As the war
went on the South could not
repair its railroads because it
had only two mills capable of
rolling rails and they were
making arms. The North rdd-
ed to Its system during the
war and kept up repairs. The
Quick decision, but the battles were not to
be founght with statistics. The newschart,
drawn, exclusively for thta article, shows
the comparsion of resources between the
North and South in tha spring 1991.
(UPI Telepnotol
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old contract during negoila-1 president, . said construction
tions for higher wage. will begin immediately.
North could move troops and
supplies rapidly anywhere by
Tail, the South one or the oth
er, but not both In quantity
at once and later that system
broke down.
The South was an agrtcul-1
tural land but Its crop was
cotton. The North with more
land and more worker con
centrated on cereals and live
stock with a wide dlyerslfl
cation ot lesser crops. Food-
stuff were plentiful alt
through the war as against
the South's taxes )n kind and
organized hunts tor hidden
food.
factors Ferartec South
Civil War armies moved
their ammunition and supplies
largely by wagon during cam
paigns. The South bad only
about a third as many draft
animal at the start ot the war
at the North and only brought
the I) jure to a half with Its
larger number ot mules.
But the North' edge an the
economic side was blunted be
cause Its armies were Invad
er with longer communica
tion Knee and therefore a
greater percentage of its man
were handling supplies behind
the bettlefront. The longer
communication, tine Invited
cavalry raids and the North
lost great stores ox food, am'
munition and arms In these
Atrfiva Th flntfh fa miflv
instances virtually lived off!
Union supplies and captured
100,000 or more stands ct.
arm to turn on the federal.
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