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The Daily Dispatch: May 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Starvation. (search)
Starvation.
The Yankees, who have tried all their Generals and failed, are now trusting to the co-operation of General Starvation.
They believe that he has commenced operations in the Southern Confederacy, and they are delighted at the prospects they present to their imaginations.
Hungry and gaunt women, with wild, glaring eyes — wasted and languid children, with large heads, pinched and pale faces, and shrivelled limbs — weak, worn, and haggard soldiers, tottering under their arms as they struggle to get away from the well-fed robbers, house-burners, and women-insulters of the North, who mercilessly complete destruction and desolation where'er they go — this is a picture they love to contemplate!
Oh, God, let this be and receive the songs of praise of the whole Yankee race!
Perhaps it is fortunate that the difficulties of transportation and distribution of the supplies in the country did occasion some necessary economy in the consumption of food — some
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The Daily Dispatch: May 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], The retribution to come. (search)
Buckingham county.
--A correspondent of the Petersburg Express, writing from the county of Buckingham, says:
I have yet to meet with the first person who intends to raise a plant of tobacco for market.
Notwithstanding the unprecedented high price of this article, and the consequent strong inducement thus offered to cultivate it, the tobacco lots are to be planted in corn and potatoes. Every farmer is petting in the large possible crop of corn, potatoes, peas, and such other things as will afford food for man or beast.--With favorable seasons we shall have plenty to eat, and General Starvation, whose expected advent has caused such fiendish joy in Yankee land, will fail as signally as the other human agencies which have been relied on by our boastful and cruel foe.