Memphis Tennessee before the War, and the Foraging Parties of the Union Army

Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 "Memphis (Tennessee) before the war / sketched by Porte Crayon." wood engraving.Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1862 March 15, p. 168. Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95509535/ (accessed on October 15, 2013).

Memphis Tennessee before the War, and the Foraging Parties of the Union Army

Memphis before the war, and during the Occupation. Richard traveled upstream against the current in a Riverboat from Gaines Landing Arkansas to Memphis.

The second image shows why the South was defending itself, the war for them was about the North coming down and robbing them of their crops, personal possessions and just about everything. The Cotton Crop was one of the first things taken in Charleston and the Union was notorious for burning down warehouses that stored the cotton all over the South. It was about a rape of the land and a destruction of the people. It is about politicians who bought their rank only to profiteer and the expense of everyone else including their own men.

Riverboat to Memphis

"High pressure steamboat Mayflower first class packet between St. Louis and New Orleans on the Mississippi River - Capt. Joseph Brown." New York: N. Currier, c1855. Lithograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002695868/#bib (accessed 10/12/2012).

Riverboat to Memphis

This riverboat was the Mayflower which was a high pressure steamer that was in use from St Louis to New Orleans on the Mississippi River before the war. Richard took a steamer to Memphis.

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