By Stephen V. Ash
A yr within the South is set 4 usual humans in a rare time. They lived within the South in the course of 1865 -- a 12 months that observed struggle, disunion, and slavery collapse to peace, reconstruction, and emancipation. One used to be a slave made up our minds to realize freedom, one a widow fighting poverty and depression, one a guy of God and planter’s son grappling with non secular and worldly problems, and one a former accomplice soldier looking a brand new existence. among January and December 1865 they witnessed, from very varied vantage issues, the dying of the outdated South and the beginning of the hot South. Civil battle historian Stephen V. Ash reconstructs their day-by-day lives, their fears and hopes, and their frustrations and triumphs in shiny aspect, telling a dramatic tale of genuine humans in a time of significant upheaval and delivering a clean point of view on a pivotal second in background.
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John Powell, whose husband was in the army, gave her two of his old suits that, with some alterations, ﬁt Allan and Harry. From her sister in another part of Virginia, Cornelia got ﬁfty pounds of wool; she dyed it black, paid to have it carded, spun, and woven (tasks she had never learned to do and had no equipment for), then made it into winter clothes. She also resorted to cannibalizing fabrics she had around the house. Laboriously she unraveled a cotton mattress, wound the thread, dyed half of it with walnut hulls, and then had it woven into brown-and-white checked cloth from which she made suits for the four youngest boys.
As the winter of 1864–65 came to a close, there still seemed no cause for alarm. 27p CORNELIA MCDONALD CORNELIA MCDONALD’S HOUSE IN LEXINGTON WAS A RENTED, two-story clapboard on the west side of Main Street, just north of the twoblock stretch of Main that comprised the town’s business district. The house was at least seventy years old and hard to heat, for it had a lot of windows and some of the rooms had no ﬁreplace. The rats were a problem, too. But it was spacious compared to the other places she had lived in as a refugee: there were three rooms on the ﬁrst ﬂoor, three on the second, and a kitchen in the basement.
Along with declining faith in victory, she detected deep resentment toward the Confederate government, especially over conscription. She listened as a fellow passenger, a forty-ﬁve-year-old conscript on his way to the army, told of a neighbor “who had had two sons killed [in battle], and one a prisoner . . the father, had been taken as a conscript, and . . ”44 As the winter of 1864–65 went on, there was more bad news to depress Confederate spirits. City after city fell to the invaders: Savannah in late December, Charleston and Wilmington in February.
A Year in the South: Four Lives in 1865 by Stephen V. Ash