"August 19th (1864). How they quarreled and wrangled among themselves- Alabama and Mississippi, all were loud for Joe Johnston, save and except the long-haired, one-armed hero, who cried at the top of his voice: "Oh! you all want to be kept in
trenches and to go on retreating, eh?" "Oh, if we had had a leader, such as Stonewall (Jackson), this war would have been over
long ago! What we want is a leader!" shouted a (wounded man).
They were awfully smashed-up, objects of misery, wounded, maimed, diseased. I was really upset, and came home ill This
kind of thing unnerves me quite."
Mary Chestnut, A Diary From Dixie
This entry from the diary of Mary Chestnut illustrates
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A)
the lack of medical technology possessed by the Confederacy.
B)
the military superiority of Southern troops in the Civil War.
the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation on the Southern economy
and society
D)
the loss of morale and confidence by the Confederacy towards the end of
the Civil War.