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 semi-barbaric fighting spirit of the frontiersmen of New York, Virginia, and the Carolinas, which made those men the best skirmishers, sharpshooters, and bushrangers of the world; nor the red-hot zeal, implacable hate, and stubborn courage of the New Englanders. But they had a calm, enduring courage of their own, and they had besides, what all the others lacked: steady discipline, willing subordination to their commanders, and skill in the tactics of the line of battle, for they had long been drilled by men who had fought under Frederic the Great. They had, too, the superiority which is ever given by education and intelligence, for Aristopia had for generations been a land of public schools.

Of her means Aristopia gave as freely as of her men. The American armies were armed with Aristopian cannon, muskets, bayonets, and sabers. The mines of Mizouri furnished lead, and the caverns of Kentucky the saltpeter from which skillful Aristopian workmen made their powder. The troops were fed largely with flour of wheat from the wood-embosomed fields of Ohio and the prairie farms of Elenwah. Ships of war were built by skillful builders at Boston, New York, Baltimore, and Norfolk, and