Hard times

Rico says the book The State of Jones has much on the valor of those, like Newton knight, who opposed the Confederacy, but it is saddening to read of what those who wore the gray suffered: "A third of Mississippi's Confederates, some 28,000 men, had died during the War. Entire companies had been slaughtered: of the 123 men who had marched off with the Vicksburg Cadets, just six returned... More than half of Mississippi's veterans had lost an arm or a leg... The male populace was so mutilated that, in 1866, one-fifth of the state budget would be needed to purchase artificial limbs...