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Memphis (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
at of speculating in cotton, and it was finally stopped by a strong proclamation. A large contraband trade was carried on by an almost continuous line of house-boats floating on the Mississippi river. When opposite Memphis the goods were either sent in at night or into the interior of Arkansas, where trusty parties soon disposed of the stock*. The great bulk of this trade was sent out by traders and speculators in Paducah, Ky., and Cairo, Ill., and their main points of operation were Memphis, Tenn., Helena, Ark., Napoleon, Ark., and Greenville, Miss. In regard to Napoleon, very few of this generation ever heard of the town, nor can it be found on the maps of the present day; yet in war time Napoleon, Arkansas, was a town of nearly 3,000 people, well built with brick business houses, and contained a large United States marine hospital, built of brick; and situated as it was on the Mississippi, at the mouth of the Arkansas river, it was at one time a rival of Memphis for trade. Th
Beulah Island Landing (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
terior of Arkansas, where trusty parties soon disposed of the stock*. The great bulk of this trade was sent out by traders and speculators in Paducah, Ky., and Cairo, Ill., and their main points of operation were Memphis, Tenn., Helena, Ark., Napoleon, Ark., and Greenville, Miss. In regard to Napoleon, very few of this generation ever heard of the town, nor can it be found on the maps of the present day; yet in war time Napoleon, Arkansas, was a town of nearly 3,000 people, well built with briNapoleon, Arkansas, was a town of nearly 3,000 people, well built with brick business houses, and contained a large United States marine hospital, built of brick; and situated as it was on the Mississippi, at the mouth of the Arkansas river, it was at one time a rival of Memphis for trade. This village was entirely destroyed by flood in 1869 or 1870; the last vestige of the large marine hospital was carried into the Mississippi river in 1874, and to-day there is not a human habitation to show where Napoleon once flourished. One of my Alabama lawyer friends, an ex-
Statesville (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
in the army; so, it may be seen that home manufacture and blockade running were the only source of supply during nearly four years for between six and seven millions of people. The interior towns suffered most, such places as Jackson, Meridian, Columbus and Aberdeen in Mississippi; Selma, Montgomery, Eufala, and Huntsville, in Alabama; Albany, Macon, Augusta, Athens, Rome and Atlanta in Georgia; Spartanburg, Greenville and Columbia, in South Carolina; Fayetteville, Goldsboro, Raleigh, Statesville and Charlotte, in North Carolina; and Danville, Lynchburg, Petersburg and Richmond, in Virginia. In nearly all of these towns one or more druggists manufactured from stock on hand of roots, herbs, and barks, or from home supply of such medicinal plants as he could secure, tinctures and like preparations. The supply of whiskey was not so short as that of medicines. The so-called moonshiners of the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia kept their stills, (often ca
Tulip, Ark. (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
ection should be obtained when in bloom and carefully dried in the shade. I here append a list of substitutes that were used by druggists and physicians during the war in large quantities, in most of the instances being the only medicines of the kind to be had: *** imported articles.substitute. Columbo, QuassiaYellow root, Spanish flies, potato bugs, powdered leaves of butternut JalapWild Jalap, Mulberry bark, Butternut, Dock, Wild potato vine, Amer Columbo Quinine and Peruvian BarkTulip tree bark, Dogwood, Cotton-seed tea, Chestnut root and bark, Thoroughwort, Spanish oak bark, Knob grass, Willow bark DigitalisBlood-root, Wild cherry, Pipsissiwa, Bugle weed, Jasmine ConiumAmerican hemlock OpiumAmerican hemlock, Motherwort SarsaparillaWild Sarsaparilla, Soapwort, Yellow parilla, China briar, Queen's delight ChamomileDogwood FlaxseedWatermelon seed Gum ArabicLow mallows, apple, pear and quince gum, Balm, Watermelon seed ErgotCotton-root GuaiacumBoxwood, Poke, Prickly
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
ed to the surgeons, besides the sick and wounded prisoners of war. The Confederate government, immediately after the formation of a provisional government at Montgomery, were confronted by strong facts and large figures as to supplies for the different departments. Agents were sent at once to Europe, most of whom were in Londoor between six and seven millions of people. The interior towns suffered most, such places as Jackson, Meridian, Columbus and Aberdeen in Mississippi; Selma, Montgomery, Eufala, and Huntsville, in Alabama; Albany, Macon, Augusta, Athens, Rome and Atlanta in Georgia; Spartanburg, Greenville and Columbia, in South Carolina; FayetNew York, I learn the following names of some druggists who were in business at the South during those trying times: Benjamin Ward, of Mobile; H. Metcalf, at Montgomery, Ala.;J. A. Lee, New Iberia, La.; N. O. Mior, Columbia, S. C.; John Ingalls, Macon, Ga.; J. J. Shott, Galveston, Tex.; F. S. Duffy, New Bren, S. C.; G. W. Aymer, C
Waresboro (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
a friend that the persimmon beer made in Orangeburg Dist., S. C., by Hon. J. M. Felder, equalled the best sparkling Jersey champagne, or carbonated cider. The old Southern song ran: Christmas comes but once a year, eggnog and 'simmon beer. It was customary to mash the fruit, strain through a coarse sieve, knead with wheat bran, and bake in an oven. This persimmon bread could be put away for winter use in making beer when wanted. A correspondent in the Charleston Mercury wrote from Waresboro, Ga.: You speak of black moss for mattresses. Our common palmetto leaves, split into shreds with fork and hackle, boiled, dried in the the sun a few days, make a light, clean, healthy and durable mattress. Let me suggest that palmetto pillows would be light and comfortable for our soldiers on the coast. Their corn and flour sacks, in the absence of anything better, furnish readymade pillow ticks. Our negroes are busily employed making light, durable and handsome palmetto hats for our sol
Alabaha River (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
e runners for supplies, many druggists in these Southern towns and cities displayed much ingenuity in the disposition of the stocks bought at auction at the seaports. Mr. B. Metcalf, of Montgomery, relates that he attended an auction sale, at Mobile, on one occasion, and, arriving late, found the cargo all sold except cod-liver oil and bees wax, which he succeded in purchasing. His two barrels of cod-liver oil and 600 pounds of bees-wax were immediately reshipped to Montgomery on the Alabama river. Filling every shape and size bottle to be found, and placing a judicious advertisement in the papers, he was enabled to sell the oil, but what to do with the bees-wax was a puzzler. Discovering a set of candle moulds and using cotton yarn as a wick, he ran the entire mass into candles and succeeded in selling the whole stock at ten cents apiece. Nashville fell early in the action, and there was but little suffering there on account of failure to obtain medical supplies. One incid
Cuba (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 1.26
gs and medicines was the third in importance, and the druggists of the South had either to manufacture what they could from native barks and leaves and herbs and roots, or purchase at the Southern ports such supplies as the blockade runners brought in that were not intended for the government. In most cases these cargoes were offered at auction. This was a custom at Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Charleston, Pensacola, Savannah, and Wilmington. The Gulf cities received large supplies from Cuba, while in Texas there was almost a continuous train of contrabanders, or smugglers, bringing goods across the Rio Grande from Mexico, but not much of this was medicine. As to capture, while the army frequently captured the wagon trains of the enemy, thus obtaining some supplies of medicines and surgical appliances, these were barely sufficient to supply the most distressing needs in the army; so, it may be seen that home manufacture and blockade running were the only source of supply durin
Amelia Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
ffee sold in New York and Boston the past twenty-five years has been composed chiefly of rye. Cotton-seed decoction was used for inflammation in mucous passages. The roots of the cotton plant were employed in asthma, and by the negroes as an abortant. Soap was made from cotton seed by treating them direct with lye. Among the substitutes for tea were Ceanothus Americanus, known as red root, or New Jersey tea, and holly leaves and blackberry and raspberry leaves and rose leaves. The Amelia azedarach (China berry) furnished some valuable uses. The berries were employed in making whiskey; the bark of the root used as an anthelmintic. The leaves were said to prevent botts in horses, and were used to pack with dried fruits to preserve them from ravages of insects. A soap was made from the berries, called Poor Man's Soap. The ox-eyed daisy was used in place of Persian insect powder—an insecticide used as far back as 1857. In the country, fresh elderberry leaves were laid ne
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
their productiveness. The splendid waters of the Carolinas and of Georgia that now mingle the music of their falling with the hum and whir orce. The inexhaustible beds of iron ore and manganese and coal of Georgia and Alabama and Tennessee were still unexplored, and the vast quarries of Georgia marble and granite, now yielding rich profits to Northern investments, were then overlooked and unworked. It can be imagine, in Alabama; Albany, Macon, Augusta, Athens, Rome and Atlanta in Georgia; Spartanburg, Greenville and Columbia, in South Carolina; Fayettevshiners of the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia kept their stills, (often called gum-logs) running night and day, ot for colic in babies was a common dose. The best known standard Georgia tonic was dogwood, poplar and wild cherry barks, equal proportions middle bark. Love vine used as a laxative tea. Pinckneya pubens, Georgia bark, useful in intermittent fevers. It is said that Dr. Fair det
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