New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-29

IN the South, is the work of a Virgfnian Win has
long occupied herself in collecting the rernnfs
cences of relatives, friends and acquaintances
1t PROVIDES natural sequel to the diary Of
MIS- Chestnut published last year. II relates
from the Southern point of view the painful
story Of the logical outcome of a war which
was brought on by the chief sufferers thers
from We do not now learn for the first time
that great misery endured in the South
but Mrs. Avary's presentation of details is. on
the whole thorough and comprehensive She
should be credited with desire to be fair TO
the North She often fails TO be so, but no
doubt this fairness can hardly be expected from
one who grew to girlhood in a period of wrath
and despair. Some of her pages are femininely
tart and shallow; when she touches upon the
subject OF the fate OF Jefferson Davis she be-
comes so melodramatic that her reader cannot
but smile. Where her book is OF real value is
In pictures Of such practical social conditions
after the war would most wildly appeal to
the interest Of a woman and partisan.
There is. 1t is certain. no heart so hard that
IL cannot be touched by true stories of tho
restitution in the South at the close of the
struggle Some of the less mournful pages in
this book describe the kindness and sympathy
which many a Federal soldier showed to the
suffering wives and children of the defeated
like that Of the boyish guard who. tramping on
his beat around a house he was detailed to pro-
tect, asked of young mother. Why does your
baby cry so? She lifted her pale face, saying
My baby is hungry. have had food-and
Sol have no nourshment for him.. Tears
sprang into his eyes, and he said, I will be re-
neved soon; will draw my rations and bring
them TO you He brought her his hands full of
all good things he could f1nd-sugar tea and
coffee" Another characteristic story was that
of young wife and mother of Atlanta whose
life Of sheltered luxury had i'll fitted her for the
privations she encountered and the tasks she
had to perform after the dispersal OF her Ne
groes. There was fine we'll in her yard, and
Northern soldiers from a neighboring encamp-
ment were accustomed to come to it for water
There. day, warm hearted Irishntan in the
blue uniform found the beautiful young South
struggling over the soapsuds of the
family wash, her first essay.
1t looked as II she would never get those clothes
clean. For one thing, when she tried to wiring
and hands; she had peculiarly fine and tender skin
Ia, and be % SAID Fat AN what IT, is It
aGne Faith AMI an S ge don don't lave of cann
'wayrF Sure me choid, an If yen ts step to
the other soide Of the tub without putin me to the
inconVaniance'- He was about to pick her up in
his mighty hands She moved and dropped down,
sure. an it's as good a washerwoman as ivver
wore breaches am said Pat An that's what
an the clothes hanging snow white on the line; be
I'm your Bridget livery washday that comes
'roun'." he said. as he swung himself off He was
every week
Now and again in that sorrowful time was 10
be noted an incident that had something of
humor in II. Witness the story of the famous
Richmond beauty. a lovely blond girl, who. |
like all her young friends, went heavily yelled
IT. the street, shielded thus from the eyes Of
appreciative Northerners This Mary Trplett
was walking along when the wind took off
her veil and carried II to the feet OF a young |
Federal officer. He bent. uplifted the vagran.
mask and, with his cap held before his eyes, |
restored il. That a very honest, self-deny- |
ing Yankee'-a gallant youth, indeed. Mrs |
Avary writing Of more serious phases Of the |
contest, defends the Southern treatment of
Northern prisoners the ground that they |
had all their tailers had to give the jailers them
selves suffering for food and medicine Illus
trating this. she tells story of some precious /
loaves of white bread collected with difficulty |
and brought to the matron of a Confederate |
hospital
Boys" Miss Emily announced-sck soldiers If
c,~e,-fe0rds were boys "Capn," they all /
eeaiied Miss Eniy-'I have some four-bread which |
the the atbsT 9f of The
sick Yankee Miss fbS on ea CORN
Give the fiour-bread the poor. sick
1ane ro Gap the eots I've can eat
Cruel is good for US We IKE m s 0ugntnt to
said proudly of their self-denia. they were tired
deaf OF cOrnbread in all forms. and IL was not !
Good FOR them, for nearly all had intestinal dis |
orders"
An ex-Confederate officer said IN after years:
81 don't think we would ever have had the trou-
bIe we had down here if Northern people had
known how things really were. In fact know
we would not Why 1 never had any trouble
with Northern men in all my life, except that l
inst fought them all knew how. And l never
had better friends than among my Republican
Colleagues in Congress after the They
thought all the more of me because L stood up
co stoutly for the old Confederate cause" 1t is
apparent TO the author. as to more impartial OBJ
servers that the sorest misfortune that could
have come TO the defeated South was the assas-
s,nation of President Lincoln. No other man
could have so quickly welded together the riven
country In what spirit the great President
would have approached the task may be seen
,r many a moving incident Of his visit to Rich
.Iot enir,t is this story connected with the rebel
General Pickett, the nephew of MIR. Johnson, a
former law partner of Lincoln in Illinois:
NJ rtpcoIn had taken warm interest In young
+. Nc Pickett as a cadet West Point and had
oeoso 49, ktnJly jovfal letters advice During
that hurried inc for looking up Nj Johnson His
go and armed retinue drew up in front of the
or ttEIrnbiinr with alarm. heard strange voice
6rst FOR Mr. Johnson and then about General
ilcAs1" c $40 came forward. her baby in her arms
~ an General Picketts wife" Madam. am
GEORGES oi S tbe United Statesr' No with
tindiV haIf-ouzzcal SMILE only Abraham LIN