Dixie After the War
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Myrta Lockett Avary. Dixie After the War
CHAPTER I. The Falling Cross
CHAPTER II “When This Cruel War is Over”
CHAPTER III. The Army of the Union: The Children and the Flag
CHAPTER IV. The Coming of Lincoln
CHAPTER V. The Last Capital of the Confederacy
CHAPTER VI. The Counsel of Lee
CHAPTER VII “The Saddest Good Friday”
CHAPTER VIII. The Wrath of the North
CHAPTER IX. The Chaining of Jefferson Davis
CHAPTER X. Our Friends, the Enemy
CHAPTER XI. Buttons, Lovers, Oaths, War Lords, and Prayers for Presidents
CHAPTER XII. Clubbed to His Knees
CHAPTER XIII. New Fashions: A Little Bonnet and an Alpaca Skirt
CHAPTER XIV. The General in the Cornfield
CHAPTER XV. Tournaments and Starvation Parties
CHAPTER XVI. The Bondage of the Free
CHAPTER XVII. Back to Voodooism
CHAPTER XVIII. The Freedmen’s Bureau
CHAPTER XIX. The Prisoner of Fortress Monroe
CHAPTER XX. Reconstruction Oratory
CHAPTER XXI. The Prisoner Free
CHAPTER XXII. A Little Plain History
CHAPTER XXIII. The Black and Tan Convention: The “Midnight Constitution”
CHAPTER XXIV. Secret Societies
CHAPTER XXV. The Southern Ballot-Box
CHAPTER XXVI. The White Child
CHAPTER XXVII. Schoolmarms and Other Newcomers
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Carpet-Bagger
CHAPTER XXIX. The Devil on the Santee
CHAPTER XXX. Battle for the State-House
CHAPTER XXXI. Crime Against Womanhood
CHAPTER XXXII. Race Prejudice
CHAPTER XXXIII. Memorial Day and Decoration Day. Confederate Societies
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“The Southern Cross” and a cross that fell during the burning of Columbia occur to my mind in unison.
With the Confederate Army gone and Richmond open to the Federal Army, her people remembered New Orleans, Atlanta, Columbia. New Orleans, where “Beast Butler” issued orders giving his soldiers license to treat ladies offending them as “women of the town.” Atlanta, whose citizens were ordered to leave; General Hood had protested and Mayor Calhoun had plead the cause of the old and feeble, of women that were with child; and of them that turned out of their houses had nowhere to go, and without money, food, or shelter, must perish in woods and waysides. General Sherman had replied: “I give full credit to your statements of the distress that will be occasioned, yet shall not revoke my orders, because they were not designed to meet the humanities of the case. You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.” “The order to depopulate Atlanta was obeyed amid agonies and sorrows indescribable,” Colonel J. H. Keatley, U. S. A., has affirmed.
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“Meanwhile, detachments scoured the city, warning every one from the streets to their houses… Every one carrying plunder was arrested… The ladies of Richmond thronged my headquarters, imploring protection. They were sent to their homes under the escort of guards, who were afterwards posted in the center house of each block, and made responsible for the safety of the neighborhood… Many painful cases of destitution were brought to light by the presence of these safeguards in private houses, and the soldiers divided rations with their temporary wards, in many cases, until a general system of relief was organised.”2
“There was something like misgiving in his eyes as he sat in the carriage with Shepley, gazing upon smoking ruins on all sides, and a rabble of crazy negroes hailing him as ‘Saviour!’ Truly, I never saw a sadder or wearier face in all my life than Lincoln’s!”
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