West Pointers in the Two Armies

erate Treasury. But it is clear that treasury policy did not enhance, but instead continued to destroy, public confidence in monetary matters.31 Trenholm correctly diagnosed the Treasury's disease, but at such a late date, that any prescription would have proven ineffectual. In the end Confederate treasury policy failed for want of public confidence. 31 For the final collapse of public confidence in other than financial matters, see Vandiver and Ramsdell, op. cit., and Charles H. Wesley, The Collapse of the Confederacy (Washington: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1937), esp. pp. 47-51, 74-83. WEST POINTERS IN THE TWO ARMIES from a list. . . of the West-Point graduates who are officers in the armies of the United States and confederate States, it appears that there are in the United States army seventeen major-generals and twenty-four brigadier -generals; in the confederate States army, five generals (besides A. S. Johnson, küled at Shiloh,), eighteen major-generals, forty-one brigadiergenerals . From this list, which ends with 1848, it appears that we have sixty-four generals from West-Point in our army, while the United States have but forty-one. It was no idle or unmeaning boast of President Davis that he had pick and choice of the officers of the old army .... Mobile Evening News, September 22, 1862. 28 ...