I was heart and
soul for his cause, whatever it was, and, yet I fear me, though I do not
wish to hurt your feelings, Harry, that the state to which he was such
ornament, has not gone for the South with the whole spirit that she
should have shown. She has not even seceded. I fear sometimes that you
Kentuckians are not altogether Southern. You border upon the North,
and stretching as you do a long distance from east to west and a
comparatively short distance from north to south, you thus face three
Northern States across the Ohio--Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and the
pull of three against one is strong. You see your position, don't you?
Three Yankee states facing you from the north and only one Southern state,
Tennessee, lying across your whole southern border, that is three against
one. I fear that these odds have had their effect, because if Kentucky
had sent all of her troops to the South, instead of two-thirds of them
to the North, the war would have been won by us ere this."
"I admit it," said Harry regretfully. "My own cousin, who was more like
a brother to me, is fighting on the other side. Kentucky troops on the
Union side have kept us from winning great victories, and many of the
Union generals are Kentuckians.
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