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Title: A picture of the desolated states; and the work of restoration. 1865-1868
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Southern States -- Description and travel United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Anecdotes
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., L. Stebbins
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nfed-erate government which made my blood chill. But the daughter smilingly repeated, It was a good cause,and I dont regret it. You must nt mind what he says. I helped her get him inside the wicket, and made my escape,wondering, as I left them, which was the more insane of thetwo. 160 LIBBY, CASTLE THUNDER, AND BELLE ISLE. But she was not insane; she was a woman. A man maybe reasoned and beaten out of a false opinion, but a womannever. She will not yield to logic, not even to the logic ofevents. Thus it happens that, while the male secessionists atthe South have frankly given up their cause, the female seces-sionists still cling to it with provoking tenacity. To appeal totheir intelligence is idle ; but they are vulnerable on the sideof the sentiments ; and many a one has been authentically con-verted from the heresy of state rights by some handsomeFederal officer, who judiciously mingled love with loyalty inhis speech, and pleaded for the union of hands as well as theunion of States.
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DESTITUTE RATIOIS TICKETS. 161 CHAPTER XXL FEEDING THE DESTITUTE. As I was passing Castle Thunder, I observed, besiegingthe doors of the United States Commissary, on the oppositeside of the street, a hungry-looking, haggard crowd, — sickly-faced women, jaundiced old men, and children in rags; withhere and there a seedy gentleman who had seen better days,or a stately female in faded apparel, which, like her refinedmanners, betrayed the aristocratic lady whom the war hadreduced to want. These were the destitute of the city, thronging to receivealms from the government. The regular rations, issued ata counter to which each was admitted in his or her turn,consisted of salt-fish and hard-tack ; but I noticed that tosome tea and sugar were dealt out. All were provided withtickets previously issued to them by the Relief Commission.One tall, sallow woman requested me to read her ticket, andtell her if it was a No. 2. They telled me it was, whar I got it, but I like to beshore. I assured her

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