The South - a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people; being a description of the present state of the country, its agriculture, (14760289565)

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Title: The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people ; being a description of the present state of the country, its agriculture, railroad, business and finances ; giving an account of Confederate misrule, and of the sufferings, necessities and mistakes, political views, social condition and prospects, of the aristocracy, middle class, poor whites and Negroes ; including visits to patriot graves and rebel prisons, and embracing special notes on the free labor system, education and moral elevation of the freemen, also, on plans of reconstruction and inducements to emigration ; from personal observations and experience during months of Southern travel
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : L. Stebbins
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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momentous expedition, which painters,historians, romancers, will in future ages labor to conceive andportray. Warned by the flying cavalry, and the smoke and flamesof plantations on the horizon, the panic-stricken inhabitantsthought only of saving their property and their lives from theinvaders. Many fled from their homes, carrying with themthe most valuable of their possessions, or those which could bemost conveniently removed. Mules, horses, cattle, sheep,hogs, were driven wildly across the country, avoiding oneforaging party perhaps only to fall into the hands of another.The mother caught up her infant; the father, mounting,took his terrified boy upon the back of his horse behind him ;the old man clutched his money-bag and ran ; not even thepoultry, not even the dogs were forgotten ; men and womenshoulderino; their household stufls, and abandonino; their housesto the mercies of the soldiers, whose waving banners andbright steel were already appearing on the distant hill-tops. 1—1
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Jk fli<:jht of the inhabitants. 481 Such panic flights were often worse than useless. Woe untothat house which was found entirely deserted ! To the honorof Southern housewives be it recorded, that the majority ofthem remained to protect their homes, whilst their husbandsand slaves ran off the live stock from the plantations. The flight from Milledgeville, including the stampede of theRebel State legislators, who barely escaped being entrappedby our army, — the crushing of passengers and private effectsinto the overloaded cars, the demand for wheeled vehicles, andthe exorbitant prices paid for them, the fright, the confusion,the separation of families, — formed a scene which neither thespectators nor the actors in it will soon forget. The negroes had all along been told that if they fell intothe hands of the Yankees they would be worked to death onfortifications, or put into the front of the battle and shot ifthey did not fight, or sent to Cuba and sold ; and that the oldwomen a