Identifier: redeemingrepubli00incoff (find matches)
Title: Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Subjects: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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fine sheet could have beenfound in any house in our settlement when the war closed. Perhaps therewas not one in the blockaded South.(6) Fine white pillow-shams were cut up and made into white waists. Bed-ticking, with its stripes of blue, was used for dress goods. This the pictureof the system of labor upon which the Confederacy had been established: If a negro was sick, a doctor who was already paid was called in all haste,as planters used to engage a doctor by the year at so much for each slave,whether large or small. One negro boy called Jim, about eighteen yearsof age, was quite sick of a fever. His master and mistress had him broughtfrom the quarters over to the dwelling-yard, and placed in the cookscabin, so that he might be given close attention. One or the other watchedhim day and night (for he was a very valuable boy), and gave him med-icine. On Saturday his master had to go to the city, and he asked meto help his wife and daughter care for Jim, saying as he stepped into his
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SILENT FORCES. 467 buggy, Now, be careful of him, and see to it that he lacks for nothing,for if he dies Ive lost one thousand dollars good as gold.(7) Behindthe tenderness that cared for Jim as a human being was his commercialvalue as a piece of property. This property was disappearing. Whereverthe Union armies marched, the slaves abandoned master and mistress tobecome freemen. The area of slavery was rapidly diminishing. All therice-growing lands of Georgia and South Carolina were overrun by North-ern troops. The valley of the Mississippi from New Orleans to Memphiswas once more beneath the Stars and Stripes. The great army of thenorth-west had wrenched Atlanta from the Confederacy. The railroadswere worn out; locomotives broken down. Swiftly, in 1864, the silentforces incident to the system of labor on which the Confederacy had beenestablished were weakening and undermining the power of JeffersonDavis to continue the struggle. Far different was the efficacy of the silent forces in

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