How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #10
It was just a lieutenant; by this time Ringo and I could tell the different officers' ranks better than we could tell Confederate ranks because one day we counted up and the only Confederate officers we had ever seen were Father and the captain that talked to us with Uncle Buck McCaslin that day in Jefferson before Grant burned it. (4.3.1)
Ringo and Bayard are definitely Southerners, living in Mississippi and rooting for the Confederacy. But the fact that they are more familiar with the Union officers' ranks just goes to show how much of a whooping the Union has given the South: there are more of them around because they are winning.