"Died in State Rights guaranteed under the Constitution in. The people of the south, animated by the spirit of 1776, to preserve their rights, withdrew from the Federal Compact in 1861. The North resented to interfere. The South, against overwhelming numbers and resources, fought until exhausted. During the war, there were seventy-two hundred and fifty-seven engage- ments; in eighteen hundred and eighty-two of these, at least one regiment took part. Number of men enlisted: Confederate armies, 600,000; Federal armies 2,859,132. Losses from all causes: Confederate, 437,000; Federal 485,216." On the front face of a monument to the "Southern Confederacy" erected in 1901, by states guaranteed on its facing sides: S.C., Miss.; Fla.; Ala.; Georgia; La.; Texas; Va.; Ark.; N.C.; Tenn.; Mo.; Ky. Met Prof. [illegible] and his wife out in their car, and Dr. Lovest riding with them for a time. In the evening had dinner