The boys of '61; or, Four years of fightingPersonal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond . idge had exercised authority,dispensing places of profit to their friends, who came in crowdsto find exemption from conscription. Beyond, and on eitherside, was the forest of blackened chimneys, tottering walls, andsmoking ruins of the lire which had swept away the accumu-lated wealth of years in a day. How terrible the retribution!Before the war there was quiet in the city, but there came areign of terror, when ruffians ruled, when peaceful citize
The boys of '61; or, Four years of fightingPersonal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond . idge had exercised authority,dispensing places of profit to their friends, who came in crowdsto find exemption from conscription. Beyond, and on eitherside, was the forest of blackened chimneys, tottering walls, andsmoking ruins of the lire which had swept away the accumu-lated wealth of years in a day. How terrible the retribution!Before the war there was quiet in the city, but there came areign of terror, when ruffians ruled, when peaceful citizensdared not be abroad after dark. There was sorrow in everyhousehold for friends fallen in battle, and Poverty sat by manya hearthstone. Hardest of all to bear was the charity of their the shadow of the Capitol the Christian and SanitaryCommissions were giving bread to the needy. Standing thereupon the roof I could look down upon a throng of men, wo-men, and children receiving food from the kind-hearted dele-gates, upon whose lips were no words of bitterness, but onlythe song of the angels, — Peace on earth, good-will to men!. 1865.] THE CONFEDERATE LOAN. CHAPTER XXXII. THE CONFEDERATE LOAN. The attitude of Great Britain towards the United Statesduring the Rebellion will make a strange chapter in first steamship returning from that country after the firingupon Fort Sumter brought the intelligence that the Britishgovernment had recognized the Rebels as belligerents. , the newly appointed Minister to the Court of , was on his way to London, but without waiting to hearwhat representations he might have to make, the ministry withunseemly haste gave encouragement to the Rebels. Palmerston, Russell, the chief dignitaries of state, and ofthe Church also, with the London Times and Morning Post,espoused the cause of the slaveholders, while the weavers ofLancashire, though thrown out of employment by the blockade,gave their sympathies to the No
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