The South Since The War
Subtitle: As Shown By Fourteen Weeks Of Travel And Observation In Georgia And The Carolinas
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: June 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780548313022
Subjects: United States - State & Local - South; History; History: American
First sentence: A CITY of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses, of widowed women, of rotting wharves, of deserted ware-houses, of miles of grass-grown streets, of acres of pitiful and voiceful barrenness is Charleston, wherein Rebellion loftily reared its head five years ago, on whose beautiful promenade the fairest of cultured women gathered with passionate hearts to applaud the assault of ten thousand upon the little garrison of Fort Sumter!