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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 13: brotherhood. (search)
mpses of ruined industries in the single Southern city of Richmond prove how discouraging a reality confronted the Confederate soldier on his return home. Even the words of the orator Grady are faint in comparison with the almost hopeless future that lay before his people in 1865. All their movable capital was exhausted. The banks had failed. The State and Confederate bonds were worthless. The railroads were ruined; the cities disconsolate; the labor system revolutionized. But, as Henry Watterson says, the South was poor and in bondage; she was set free, and she had to go to work; she went to work, and she is richer than ever before. He finds his house in ruins—illustrations for Grady's words Fire-swept homes Nothing but bare walls The path of destruction Work of the flames A vista of havoc A once beautiful mansion On this page appear homes and public buildings wrecked by the conflagration during the evacuation of Richmond on the night of April 2,