1868 Civil War RECONSTRUCTION South Post Racism Slavery Hell Insurrection Death For Sale

Hell on Earth, the United States after the Civil War. 

A PICTURE OF THE DESOLATED STATES;

AND THE WORK OF RESTORATION 

1865-1868

By  J.T. Trowbridge 

Published by L. Stebbins, Hartford, Conn., 1868. Good hardcover, ex library with usual stamps and markings. Tight binding, solid spine, good hinges & joints, clean unmarked text. Illustrated. Some rubbing wear and soiling to boards. Decorative gilt stamp to front board, blind stamp to rear board, faded git titling to spine. Interior pages very well preserved, 86 Chapters in total. 8vo; xv, 2-690, Appendix 46. Illustrated with 13 full page plates plus 10 maps. Frontis illustration Drawn by Henry Herrick and engraved by Henry Bryan Hall. 

Partial Contents:

Harrisburg, reminiscences of Lee’s invasion, Field of Gettysburg, Cemetery Hill, Culp’s Hill, Rock creek, Devil’s Den & Little Round Top, Round Top, harvest of bullets, Ruins of Chambersburg, Death of three rebels South Mountain, bribes-fines-jayhawkers,Hagerstown, Valley of Antietam, scene of General Reno’s death, rebels buried in a well, view of Catoctin Valley, Field of Antietam, unfortunate farmers, the Dunker Church, Burnside’s bridge, the Battle, Harper’s Ferry, escape of twenty-two hundred cavalry, around Harper’s Ferry, Charlestown, farmers and land, boarding house fare, John Brown’s Trial, one-armed confederate, John Brown’s Gallows, a crowd of pardon-seekers, Bull Run, miscegenated cider, Virginia negroes, Acquia creek, Field of Fredericksburg, houses fires, white officers and colored girls, Rebel eye-witness, the buried dead, bones for the bone-factory, the wilderness church, poor whites and the war, murder cases, whites and blacks in the country, negroe “fated”, tavern keeper’s relics, Ruins of Richmond, origin of the fire, colored labor, Libby prison, Castle Thunder, destitute ration tickets, white and black mendicants, insurrection of women, partiality to traitors, books for prisoners, mixed population of Richmond, farms for sale, negro sale rooms, female secessionists, advantages to Northern business men, forts and earthworks, Charge of Sickles’s Brigade, treasure hunting, Hotel under the fortress, Burning of Hampton, fertility, old prejudices, wages, negroes in tobacco factories, railroads, finances, manufacturers, mines, parade of a colored regiment, interring the dead, contraband village, the “Deadenings”, camp of colored soldiers, freedman’s schools, Freedman’s bureau, across Owl Creek, Skeletons rooted up by swine, trenches of the dead, best protected plantations, negro insurrections, hunted by bloodhounds, supressed Wills, old wrongs righted, Yankee canal, famine, an underground residence, labourers defrauded of their Hire, ignorance of the free labor system, Serf code, a good Yankee-Hater, Freedmen in civil courts, persecution of Union men, best cotton lands, colony of paupers, overseers, pay for slaves, French Quarter, the Mexican question  troops in Texas, lower Mississippi, property owned by people of color, street railroads, sugar and cotton, a black and white strike, merchant fleet, chain-gang, the Great Explosion, coton stealing, where the Confederate flag was hatched, indian war, how to hire the freedman, capture of steamer “Water-Witch, Georgia Railroads and banks, “Death’s Acre”, the stockade, Trial of Captain Wirz, his crimes, the dead line, shooting horses and stock, sacking of churches, value of slave property, negro with the small-pox, bribes offered, buried gold and silver, hiding place in the bushes, great fire if 1861, night in a gin house, slaves and slavery in South Carolina, gun and fishing rod, misery, citizen plunderers, robbed of everything, “divining rods”, popular jokes in the army, horrors left behind, the work of restoration, impeachment - plus much much more this is just a skimming of the 86 chapters. 

This is somewhat of a travelog of the author\'s tour through the South, it\'s battlefields, ruined cities, desolated states and talks with the people. Includes the state of the country, it\'s agriculture, railroads, visits to patriots graves and rebel prisons, notes on the free labor system, social conditions, middle class, poor whites and negroes and much more.

John Townsend Trowbridge is today perhaps best remembered for his study The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities  published in 1867, and republished with additions by another author as THIS BOOK: A Picture of the Desolated States and the Work of Reconstruction, 1865-1868. Trowbridge toured much of the defeated Confederacy during the summer of 1865 and the following winter. He observed carefully, and talked with a wide variety of people of both sexes, including freedmen, die-hard Rebels, Unionists, farmers, businessmen, refugees, and Northern entrepreneurs. In his book, he lets these people speak in their own voices, often adding his own comments. His book is written from the perspective of a loyal and fair Northerner genuinely concerned about conditions in the South and the evolving policies of the United States towards that section.

From 1865 to 1873 Trowbridge was co-editor with Lucy Larcom of Our Young Folks. Since his death he has been well known as a friend of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. Trowbridge\'s papers are located at Houghton Library at Harvard University.

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Hell on Earth, the United States after the Civil War. 

A PICTURE OF THE DESOLATED STATES;

AND THE WORK OF RESTORATION 

1865-1868

By  J.T. Trowbridge 

Published by L. Stebbins, Hartford, Conn., 1868. Good hardcover, ex library with usual stamps and markings. Tight binding, solid spine, good hinges & joints, clean unmarked text. Illustrated. Some rubbing wear and soiling to boards. Decorative gilt stamp to front board, blind stamp to rear board, faded git titling to spine. Interior pages very well preserved, 86 Chapters in total. 8vo; xv, 2-690, Appendix 46. Illustrated with 13 full page plates plus 10 maps. Frontis illustration Drawn by Henry Herrick and engraved by Henry Bryan Hall. 

Partial Contents:

Harrisburg, reminiscences of Lee’s invasion, Field of Gettysburg, Cemetery Hill, Culp’s Hill, Rock creek, Devil’s Den & Little Round Top, Round Top, harvest of bullets, Ruins of Chambersburg, Death of three rebels South Mountain, bribes-fines-jayhawkers,Hagerstown, Valley of Antietam, scene of General Reno’s death, rebels buried in a well, view of Catoctin Valley, Field of Antietam, unfortunate farmers, the Dunker Church, Burnside’s bridge, the Battle, Harper’s Ferry, escape of twenty-two hundred cavalry, around Harper’s Ferry, Charlestown, farmers and land, boarding house fare, John Brown’s Trial, one-armed confederate, John Brown’s Gallows, a crowd of pardon-seekers, Bull Run, miscegenated cider, Virginia negroes, Acquia creek, Field of Fredericksburg, houses fires, white officers and colored girls, Rebel eye-witness, the buried dead, bones for the bone-factory, the wilderness church, poor whites and the war, murder cases, whites and blacks in the country, negroe “fated”, tavern keeper’s relics, Ruins of Richmond, origin of the fire, colored labor, Libby prison, Castle Thunder, destitute ration tickets, white and black mendicants, insurrection of women, partiality to traitors, books for prisoners, mixed population of Richmond, farms for sale, negro sale rooms, female secessionists, advantages to Northern business men, forts and earthworks, Charge of Sickles’s Brigade, treasure hunting, Hotel under the fortress, Burning of Hampton, fertility, old prejudices, wages, negroes in tobacco factories, railroads, finances, manufacturers, mines, parade of a colored regiment, interring the dead, contraband village, the “Deadenings”, camp of colored soldiers, freedman’s schools, Freedman’s bureau, across Owl Creek, Skeletons rooted up by swine, trenches of the dead, best protected plantations, negro insurrections, hunted by bloodhounds, supressed Wills, old wrongs righted, Yankee canal, famine, an underground residence, labourers defrauded of their Hire, ignorance of the free labor system, Serf code, a good Yankee-Hater, Freedmen in civil courts, persecution of Union men, best cotton lands, colony of paupers, overseers, pay for slaves, French Quarter, the Mexican question  troops in Texas, lower Mississippi, property owned by people of color, street railroads, sugar and cotton, a black and white strike, merchant fleet, chain-gang, the Great Explosion, coton stealing, where the Confederate flag was hatched, indian war, how to hire the freedman, capture of steamer “Water-Witch, Georgia Railroads and banks, “Death’s Acre”, the stockade, Trial of Captain Wirz, his crimes, the dead line, shooting horses and stock, sacking of churches, value of slave property, negro with the small-pox, bribes offered, buried gold and silver, hiding place in the bushes, great fire if 1861, night in a gin house, slaves and slavery in South Carolina, gun and fishing rod, misery, citizen plunderers, robbed of everything, “divining rods”, popular jokes in the army, horrors left behind, the work of restoration, impeachment - plus much much more this is just a skimming of the 86 chapters. 

This is somewhat of a travelog of the author\'s tour through the South, it\'s battlefields, ruined cities, desolated states and talks with the people. Includes the state of the country, it\'s agriculture, railroads, visits to patriots graves and rebel prisons, notes on the free labor system, social conditions, middle class, poor whites and negroes and much more.

John Townsend Trowbridge is today perhaps best remembered for his study The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities  published in 1867, and republished with additions by another author as THIS BOOK: A Picture of the Desolated States and the Work of Reconstruction, 1865-1868. Trowbridge toured much of the defeated Confederacy during the summer of 1865 and the following winter. He observed carefully, and talked with a wide variety of people of both sexes, including freedmen, die-hard Rebels, Unionists, farmers, businessmen, refugees, and Northern entrepreneurs. In his book, he lets these people speak in their own voices, often adding his own comments. His book is written from the perspective of a loyal and fair Northerner genuinely concerned about conditions in the South and the evolving policies of the United States towards that section.

From 1865 to 1873 Trowbridge was co-editor with Lucy Larcom of Our Young Folks. Since his death he has been well known as a friend of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. Trowbridge\'s papers are located at Houghton Library at Harvard University.

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