. The Civil War : the national view . dsflooded the market. Hand labor was going out and machinelabor was coming In: the North was In a stage of industrialtransition. The enlistment of men in the Union armiesrobbed the farms of labor and machinery was invented totake Its place. Wheat, the great food staple of the North,rose In price six hundred per cent.; the women went Intothe fields, rode the reaper and binder and superintended thethreshing of the grain and getting it to market. Many afarm was bought, many a mortgage paid off with moneyearned under the expanded industry of the times. The Nor
. The Civil War : the national view . dsflooded the market. Hand labor was going out and machinelabor was coming In: the North was In a stage of industrialtransition. The enlistment of men in the Union armiesrobbed the farms of labor and machinery was invented totake Its place. Wheat, the great food staple of the North,rose In price six hundred per cent.; the women went Intothe fields, rode the reaper and binder and superintended thethreshing of the grain and getting it to market. Many afarm was bought, many a mortgage paid off with moneyearned under the expanded industry of the times. The North was singularly alive: nothing escaped It—either in grief or joy. In sorrow or In amusement. Thechurches and the theatres were alike crowded. The dailypaper sprang Into life; everybody was demanding the latestnews, and for the first time the newspapers were sold ontrains and steamboats and gained a circulation far beyondthe local centre at which they were printed. Forms ofamusement of every sort were devised: the people, strained. <-. O .■o rt O O ^ s r-^ V Q <s --:i bJD o C3 THE THIRD TEAR OF THE WAR 389 to the limit of their strength, in their anxiety for fathers,brothers and sons at the front, sought solace in lectures,plays, and shows of every description. Every loyal familywas a depot for news from the front; letters were evercoming and going, and the last from the soldier boy wasgiven from hand to hand till all had read it—or it wasprinted in the local paper for the general habit of subscribing to illustrated papers began, andevery well-to-do family followed the scenes of the war inHarpers Weekly. Mothers and daughters made delicaciesfor sick soldiers, on furlough, in the hospital, at the children helped to pack the box which should be sentto father, brother, son, uncle, somewhere far away on thefield of battle: tea, sugar, postage-stamps, medicine, books,boots, stockings, stationery, ambrotypes, tin-types, photo-graphs, keepsakes.
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