Memoir and personal recollection of . PART FOURTHChapter 1 Skattrnptton of (Eoal Vrafttraa Return to River Coal Business. After recovering from my illness in 1861, thedemand for coal being then so great, which affordedour company the opportunity of converting the largestock of flat boats and lumber into cash, to lift of!the burden of debt resulting from secession of thesouthern states and the confiscation of our coal, Iwas compelled to decline the urgent solicitation ofCol. Rucker and Lieutenant Smith to return andtake my position in the Commissary Department. J. B. Corey & Co. Dissol
Memoir and personal recollection of . PART FOURTHChapter 1 Skattrnptton of (Eoal Vrafttraa Return to River Coal Business. After recovering from my illness in 1861, thedemand for coal being then so great, which affordedour company the opportunity of converting the largestock of flat boats and lumber into cash, to lift of!the burden of debt resulting from secession of thesouthern states and the confiscation of our coal, Iwas compelled to decline the urgent solicitation ofCol. Rucker and Lieutenant Smith to return andtake my position in the Commissary Department. J. B. Corey & Co. Dissolved. In April, 1863, the firm of J. B. Corey & Co. wasdissolved, after Hive years of the most hazardous ex-perience. J. H. Peterson bought a farm near Fin-leyville on Monongahela Eiver. I also tried to buyone but could not find a suitable one for sale. Ibought the tract of coal on Penna. R. R., that myfirst employer had tried to mine 19 years before, andabandoned the river coal business after eighteenyears experience as a Flatboatman,
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