. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PU8. CO. A CONFEDERATE MILL IN Go—WHERE THE SOUND OF THE GRINDING WAS LOW The wonder is that Lees starving army was able to hold outas long as it did. This well-built flour-mill was one of manywliich in times of peace carried on an important industry in thetown. But long before the siege closed, all the mills were emptyof grain and grist. Could Lee havekept the flour-mills of Petersburg andRichmond running during the lastwinter of the war, disaster would nothave come to his famished forces soearly in 1865.
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PU8. CO. A CONFEDERATE MILL IN Go—WHERE THE SOUND OF THE GRINDING WAS LOW The wonder is that Lees starving army was able to hold outas long as it did. This well-built flour-mill was one of manywliich in times of peace carried on an important industry in thetown. But long before the siege closed, all the mills were emptyof grain and grist. Could Lee havekept the flour-mills of Petersburg andRichmond running during the lastwinter of the war, disaster would nothave come to his famished forces soearly in 1865. At the beginning ofthe year but one railroad, a canal,and a turnpike remained by whichsupplies could be gotten into Peters-l>urg from Wilmington, N. C, andCharleston, S. C. These wore thelast two ports that the blockade-runners still dared venture into withsupplies for the Confederacy. Notonly was food scarce, but the de-. serters from Lees army, averaging about a hundred daily, re-vealed plainly the fact that the Confederate troops with theirtlu-eadbare, insufficient clothing, were in a most pitiable condi-tion. Not only was food lacking, but ammunition was runninglow. During 1864 the supply of per-cussion-caps for the Confederate armyhad been kept up only by melting thecopper stills throughout the even these were exhausted, andthere were no more supplies of cop-per in sight. Hundreds of heartrend-ing letters were intercepted and sent toLees headquarters. Mothers, wives,and sisters wrote of their inability torespond to the appeals of himgrychildren for bread or to provide propercare and remedies for the sick, and inthe name of all that was dear appealedto the men to come home.
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