. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . my flour, killed my pigs and chickens, andhere I am, stripped of everything. It is pretty hard, but your leaders would have it so. I know it, sir, and we are getting our pay for it.^1) It was frankly spoken, and was the first admission I had heard fromSouthern lips that the South was suffering retribution for the crime ofSecession. It probably did not enter his head that the selling of slaves,the breaking up of families, the sundering of heartstrings, the cries andtears and prayers of. fathers and mothe
. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . my flour, killed my pigs and chickens, andhere I am, stripped of everything. It is pretty hard, but your leaders would have it so. I know it, sir, and we are getting our pay for it.^1) It was frankly spoken, and was the first admission I had heard fromSouthern lips that the South was suffering retribution for the crime ofSecession. It probably did not enter his head that the selling of slaves,the breaking up of families, the sundering of heartstrings, the cries andtears and prayers of. fathers and mothers, the outrages, the whippings,scourgings, were also crimes in the sight of Heaven. Broken hearts werenothing to him—not that he was naturally worse than other men, but be-cause slavery had blunted sensibility. During the march the next day towards the North Anna, I halted at afarm-house. The owner had fled to Richmond in advance of the army,leaving his overseer, a stout, burly, red-faced, tobacco-chewing man. Therewere a score of old buildings on the premises. It had been a notable. FRO SI SPOTTSYLVANIA TO HANOVER. FROM SPOTTSYLVANIA TO COLD HARBOR. 157 plantation, yielding luxuriant harvests of wheat, but the proprietor hadturned his attention to the culture of tobacco and the breeding of sold annually a crop of human beings for the Southern market. Theday before our arrival, hearing that the Yankees were coming, he hurriedforty or fifty souls to Richmond. He intended to take all—forty or fiftymore—but the negroes fled to the woods. The overseer did his best tocollect them, but in vain. The proprietor raved and stormed and becameviolent in his language and behavior, threatening terrible punishment onall the runaways, but the appearance of a body of Union cavalry put anend to maledictions. He had a gang of men and women chained together,and hurried them towards Richmond. The runaways came out from their hiding-places when they saw theYankees, and advanced fea
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