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Title: Four years of fighting : a volume of personal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull Run to the fall of Richmond
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Subjects: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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becoming impassable on account of the increas-ing multitude, soldiers were summoned to clear the way. Howstrange the event! The President of the United States — hewho had been hated, despised, maligned above all other menliving by the people of Richmond — was walking its streets,receiving every evidence of love and honor! How bitter thereflections of that moment to some who beheld him, who re-membered, perhaps, that day in May, 1861, when JeffersonDavis entered the city, — the pageant of that hour, his speech,his promise to smite the smiter, to drench the fields of Virginiawith richer blood than that shed at Buena Yista! How thatpart of the promise had been kept; how their sons, brothers,and friends had fallen; how all else predicted had failed ; howthe land had been filled with mourning; how the State hadbecome a desolation; how their property, wealth, had disap-peared ! They had been invited to a gorgeous banquet; thefruit was fair to the eye, golden and beautiful, but it had
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1865.) RICHMOND. 513 turned to ashes. They had been promised a high place amongthe nations. Cotton was the king of kings ; and England,France, and the whole civilized world wonld bow in humblesubmission to his majesty. That was the promise; but nowtheir king was dethroned, their government overthrown, theirPresident and his cabinet vagrants. They had been promisedaffluence, Richmond was to be the metropolis of the Confeder-acy, and Virginia the all-powerful State of the new nation.How terrible the cheat! Their thousand-dollar bonds werenot worth a penny. A million dollars would not purchase adinner. Their money was valueless, their slaves were freemen,the heart of their city was in ashes. They had been deludedin everything. Those whom they had most trusted had mostabused their confidence; and at last, in the most unfeeling andinhuman manner, had fired their dwellings, destroying propertythey could no longer use or levy upon, thus adding arson androbbery to the already long list of the

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