Author Name: Cook, Ruth Beaumont, Illustrated by photos & map
Title: NORTH ACROSS THE RIVER a civil war trail of tears
Publisher: Birmingham, Al: Crane Hill Publishers cr 1999
Seller ID: 014098
HB. 1st ed. 8vo, 226 pp, orange w/color pictorial frt, prev owner bkplt ffep VG+/NF, INSCRIBED & SIGNED, gry bds w/gilt ltrs, dj brn-lt, NF Story of southern cotton millworkers who were arrested & deported to northern military prisons as part of General William Sherman's plan to defeat the Confederacy by removing skilled workers from the south. Sherman deported the civilian wor kers to work in the mills of the North, but he overestimated the availability of jobs in Indiana & other states north of the Ohio River.
CIVIL WAR TEXTILE WORKERS GEORGIA ATLANTA CAMPAIGN REFUGEES GENERAL SHERMAN COTTON MILLWORKERS PHOTOS & MAP
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