| Peter Joseph Hamilton - 1905 - 654 頁
...noting desolation on every hand — to his mind a fit punishment for the crimes of the traitor city. "A city of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses, of widowed women, of rotten wharves, of deserted warehouses, of weed-wild gardens, of miles of grass-grown streets, of acres... | |
| Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - 1917 - 610 頁
...and burned. It was, said a visitor from the North in September, five months after the war had ended, "a city of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses,...miles of grass-grown streets, of acres of pitiful and voiceless barrenness." 4 The wharves were overgrown with a rank plant which caused them to look like... | |
| John Bach McMaster - 1927 - 738 頁
...Bock to Fernandina. A visitor described Charleston as "a city of ruins, of deserted streets, of vacaDt houses, of widowed women, of rotting wharves, of deserted...miles of grass-grown streets, of acres of pitiful, voiceless, barrenness." * Another saw many mules grazing in the streets and described the wharves as... | |
| Don Harrison Doyle - 1990 - 396 頁
...from the Circular Church, 1865. (National Archives) Sidney Andrews, arriving in September 1865, saw "a city of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses,...streets, of acres of pitiful and voiceful barrenness." The physical damage was compounded by the demoralization of the city's white population, leaving "enough... | |
| Albert E. Sanders, William Dewey Anderson - 1999 - 382 頁
...Bachman 1888, 380-85). They would discover that it was, as one Northern newspaper correspondent observed, "A city of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses,...women, of rotting wharves, of deserted warehouses, of weed- wild gardens, of miles of grass-grown streets, of acres of pitiful and voiceful barrenness" (Andrews... | |
| Evelyn Hawkins - 1999 - 202 頁
...stimulus. The following is an example of such a case. Questions 8-9 refer to the newspaper report below. A city of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses, of widowed women, rotting wharves, of deserted warehouses . . . acres of pitiful and voiceless barrenness — that is... | |
| Robert N. Rosen - 2000 - 560 頁
...the city on February 17, 1865. Charleston surrendered the next day.6 Charleston was a defeated city. "A city of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses,...pitiful and voiceful barrenness — that is Charleston," Sidney Andrews, a reporter for the Boston Advertiser, wrote. "The splendid houses are all deserted,"... | |
| Alice F. Levkoff - 2002 - 172 頁
...this is one scene that greeted them. A northern newspaper correspondent painted his view in words : A city of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses,...miles of grass-grown streets, of acres of pitiful and voice ful barrenness— that is Charleston, wherein Rebellion loftily reared its head five years ago.... | |
| Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 頁
...Their lovely, elegant, aristocratic South is in ruins. A visitor to Charleston, South Carolina, writes of "vacant houses, of widowed women, of rotting wharves,...weedwild gardens, of miles of grass-grown streets." And the countryside? "We had no catde, hogs, sheep, or horses or anything else," a Virginian wrote... | |
| Stephanie E. Yuhl - 2006 - 304 頁
...Andrews, who traveled to the South immediately following the Confederacy's surrender, found in Charleston "a city of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses,...of miles of grassgrown streets, of acres of pitiful barrenness — that is the Charleston, wherein Rebellion loftily reared its head five years ago."11... | |
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