Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . the waters of the beautiful Albemarle, welooked upon the northern shore, and observed a landscapescenery that is certainly unsurpassed in any other portion ofeastern North Carolina. Groves of noble trees, extensiveforests, beautiful fields capable of bearing the richest productsthat man demands. Occasionally, the fish houses along theshore, upon either side, indicate the mines of wealth containedin those waters, which, properly developed, would enrich thepeople
Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . the waters of the beautiful Albemarle, welooked upon the northern shore, and observed a landscapescenery that is certainly unsurpassed in any other portion ofeastern North Carolina. Groves of noble trees, extensiveforests, beautiful fields capable of bearing the richest productsthat man demands. Occasionally, the fish houses along theshore, upon either side, indicate the mines of wealth containedin those waters, which, properly developed, would enrich thepeople of this section of the country. But these fields andfisheries were not cultivated and improved. The people, likethose of many other sections of the Southern country, weresatisfied to live from hand to mouth, taking little thought forany provision for a rainy day, and not over anxious to leave afortune, or any part of one, to their heirs. Of course it isunderstood that there is not that necessity for labor andundying exertion that we find in the colder and more sterileStates of the North and West. A very little clothing suffices. Georoe Wallbeey. Corpl C. W. Wilson. Company G. Ucliotype Printing Co., Bu WEARING THE 133 to protect the body from the chilly winds of winter, and a rudehut, or a cheap wooden house, is all that is required as ashelter from the storms, while the earth yields a sufficientcrop with little if any labor, aside from planting the seed, tofurnish all the cereals and esculent roots, required for satisfac-tion of natures wants. The woods are full of game easilyobtained, and the waters are filled with finny and bivalvetreasures, yielding readily to the fish-gig, hook or to this, we find the natural effect of the climateproduces an inertia, affecting all classes alike, so that anactive man from a colder region, will, under the climaticinfluences, soon become as lazy, indolent and slothful as thosenative and to the manor born. A gentleman who wa
Size: 1281px × 1952px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookidwearingbluei, bookyear1879
