. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG RAILROAD STATION REMAINS OF CARS NEAR THE STATION HIS TRADE DESTROYED—ILLUSTRATIONS FOR GRADYS WORDS These few glimpses of ruined industries in the single Southern city of Richmond prove how discouraging a reality confronted the Confed-erate soldier on his return home. Even the words of the orator Grady are faint in comparison with the almost hopeless future that laybefore his people in 1865. All their movable capital was exhausted. The banks had failed. The State and Confederate bonds wereworthless. The
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG RAILROAD STATION REMAINS OF CARS NEAR THE STATION HIS TRADE DESTROYED—ILLUSTRATIONS FOR GRADYS WORDS These few glimpses of ruined industries in the single Southern city of Richmond prove how discouraging a reality confronted the Confed-erate soldier on his return home. Even the words of the orator Grady are faint in comparison with the almost hopeless future that laybefore his people in 1865. All their movable capital was exhausted. The banks had failed. The State and Confederate bonds wereworthless. The railroads were ruined; the cities disconsolate ; the labor system revolutionized. But, as Henry Watterson says, theSouth was poor and in bondage ; she was set free, and she had to go to work; she went to work, and she is richer than ever vw <^ft^|
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