The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-02-08
Marsh, that they took him in as q part
Incr. nnd the firm became Jordan, Marsh

contracts for soldiers clothing and
blankets, and it is admitted that to q |
large degree it was Fisk's energy and
tact which enabled them to put the
contracts through and distance all
competitors. The junior partners
courage was equal to every emergency.
He mado contracts for tho mannfac-
ture of clothing for thofrm all through
New Englnnd, and then drove the con-
tracts through with unAaggng energy
and inexhaustiblo good nature. lie
thuq got over eight hundred thousand
suits oG clothes, and blankets without
number, made lortho firm, all Of which
were sold at handsome profit.
NOT Il pl.ay1LGss ADyENrURER,
II is important to keep those facts in
mind. because it hG3 been widely as
serted that when Mr.. Fisk came to Now
York he was n penniless adycntnrer,
whorona he in fact was then rich. Lie
had $l30, 800 in cash, and owned an
eighth in the Golding patent, which he
could AZ any timo have sold for
Nav York offered q theatre Of action
wido onougL for the transccndent pow
ors Of this representative Yankee to
unfold themselves. He went South III
the winter of 1S64-5 to buy cotton, and
IA tha Confederacy began to weaken
under the pressure of Grant and Shcr-
man he saw the surrender Of Lee
lnomiog IN the distance. and then,
tokino }hn whole sitrlation into the ac-
count he conceived one of the
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.ton u l4" Gays "'tc"'i oI t,! III rtn,. u
torS,' ne G"'u =" illil'1'ii 'io ".s0n =
knew thc UohA'uGLacy ""U bonT w,
what a maui ne 9ouio onlakc "ollI'I6 'h''o
bonds short" VI, 4.,.
lie at once came 10 NOW Aothi Io"N
a lev other capltalIS'' mo H'9 conn
donce, and unfolded ms plans 10 thcm'
they saw the point, ana agreed 10 lur-
uish all the money that should De nee,
ossary i'll addition to what hlsK A"'
himself, and told nm TO go aHead:
ME- FISK lullte'''ato'J 3ulIl'onc,' 'l'I
!Astaat ocean i,e9uloL "iio". t'I,''op tn'at
her WIN "A'illll' 'HPt"'T I;t i.lc,' 't'tT ;t,
worthy crew; sSiV Iet W iigilI"A, "a,i,
orders TO oa'iN her I're' ",ioIlT'c s S'ot'ni ~
on ready To Shoot lIoll 3No "ii,'tl ,,T az ~ y
moheh' q n'uce' P,I PlnJ,tIn VA ,',t pp"'r won, ",
hef u 't,.7.f "I.t c'p",'t "6on'i ~, Iia
whom the caltAn was 10 receive .i' nts
Iofa2l3 to start, and VINO was 70 %'lN
tAa scheme ia London; MAGE S"Gn "I- "
raugemeuts with tho nlVJ mllG3 Oh tfi J
graphic wire that no ohi Go'ud 6'U u.
IuoT ahead OF Inn, Hud theh a"a,,.c
the result Of The lighting down IN VIZ
ginia For thirteen days the 1fes o,
tha5 steamer in Halifax Wero KEPT
banked, with every man a. ms po'f,
and everything in readiness Tor lh"taii,
departure, at I"St the dG''A DO" %
! the COnledcracy was struck.
"GOw
was ,ha word that the lightning hurled
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