1,067,000,000 in China, all users. 889,000,000 (2013), increasing. 70% of Chinese language users speak a Mandarin dialect as L1. 178,000,000. Total users in all countries: 1,091,782,930 (as L1: 897,902,930; as L2: 193,880,000).
Civil War: Songs of the North collects 15 Union-centric instrumental ballads like  Weeping Sad and Lonely/When This Cruel War Is Over, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, and The Battle Cry of Freedom, all of which are impeccably performed by Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist Craig Duncan and a small army of talented session musicians.
The military strategies adopted by the North and the South during the Civil War reflected the political goals that each side was trying to pursue. The North was initially fighting for reunification, and later a union without slavery.