1 The thousands of immigrants who'd be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines--all the things we haven't got.
2 The North could call on the whole world for supplies and for soldiers, and thousands of Irish and Germans were pouring into the Union Army, lured by the bounty money offered by the North.
3 The Confederacy had scored a smashing victory, at Fredericksburg and the Yankee dead and wounded were counted in the thousands.
4 There were thousands of able-bodied men in the state troops for whom the army was frantic, but the government pleaded for them in vain.
5 When Lincoln refused to exchange prisoners, believing it would hasten the end of the war to burden the Confederacy with the feeding and guarding of Union prisoners, there were thousands of bluecoats at Andersonville, Georgia.
6 "Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville," said Rhett, his mouth twisting.
7 And thousands of Confederate troops had been withdrawn from the lines close about the city to hurl themselves against them.
8 No one knew anything except that thousands of soldiers, gray and blue, were somewhere between Atlanta and Jonesboro.
9 There seemed thousands of them, bearded, dirty, their guns slung over their shoulders, swiftly passing at route step.
10 But the thousands of starving animals, left homeless when their masters had been so rudely evacuated, had shocked him almost as much as the cemetery, for Frank loved cats and dogs.
11 It was enough that they themselves were alive, and they did not care to think of the thousands in unmarked graves who would never come home.
12 This Bureau, organized by the Federal government to take care of the idle and excited ex-slaves, was drawing them from the plantations into the villages and cities by the thousands.
13 There were thousands of women like her, all over the South, who were frightened and helpless.
14 And thousands of men, who had laid down their arms at Appomattox, had taken them up again and stood ready to risk their necks on a minute's notice to protect those women.
15 The railroads for which Sherman had fought an entire summer and killed thousands of men were again stimulating the life of the city they had brought into being.