... dawning—an era of ruthlessness, of personal selfishness, of corruption, of disregard of private rights, of contempt forlaw and legislatures, and yet of vast and beneficial achievement. The men of thistime ... name and that of the great landlords arealmost the only ones in this list that havedescended to posterity. Yet they were the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Harrimans, the Fricks, and the HenryFords ... prevailedeverywhere in the North throughout the last two years of the War.So, too, feeding and supplying an army of millions of men laid the foundation of many of our greatest industries. The Northern soldiers...