A picture of the desolated states; and the work of restoration. 1865-1868 (1868) (14760410964)

Identifier: pictureofdesolat00trow (find matches)
Title: A picture of the desolated states; and the work of restoration. 1865-1868
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Southern States -- Description and travel United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Anecdotes
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., L. Stebbins
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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with the water. Twonoticeable objects follow after us : one is a high-breasted,proud-beaked New York steamer ; the other, the wonderfullight of dawn dancing upon the waves. 512 CHARLESTON AND THE WAR. Before us all the while, rising and expanding as we approach,its* wharves and shipping, its warehouses and church steeples,gradually taking shape, on its low peninsula thrust out betweenthe two rivers, is the haughty and defiant little city that inau-gurated treason, that led the Rebellion, that kindled the fire ittook the nations blood to quench. And is it indeed you, cityof Charleston, lying there so quiet, harmless, half asleep, inthe peaceful morning light ? Where now are the joy-intox-icated multitudes who thronged your batteries and piers andhouse-tops, to see the flag of the Union hauled down fromyonder shattered little fortress ? Have you forgotten thefrantic cheers of that frantic hour ? Once more the old flagfloats there ! How do you like the looks of it, city of Charles-ton ?
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THE GREAT FIRE OF 1861. 513 I gave my travelling-bag to a black boy on the wharf, whotook it on his head and led the way through the just awakenedstreets to the Mills House. The appearance of the city in the early morning atmosphere,was prepossessing. It is a well built, light, and airy city. Itlacks the broad streets, the public squares, and the forest oftrees, which give to Savannah its charm; but it strikes one asa more attractive place for a residence. You are not at alloppressed with a sense of the lowness of the situation; andyet it is far less elevated than Savannah, the flat and narrowpeninsula on which it is built rising but a few feet above highwater. Charleston did not strike me as a very cleanly town, and Idoubt if it ever was such. Its scavengers are the turkeybuzzards. About the slaughter-pens on the outskirts of thecity, at the markets, and wherever garbage abounds, theseblack, melancholy birds, properly vultures, congregate in num-bers. There is a law against killing t