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.
Only then, according to the standard narrative, was the North committed to emancipation. Only then did the purpose of the Civil War expand from the mere restoration of the Union to include the overthrow of slavery. In one form or another, this narrative is familiar to all scholars of the period.