Excerpt from The History of the Cotton Famine: From the Fall of Sumter to the Passing of the Public Works Act
"The History of the Cotton Famine" should be a welcome chapter in the annals of our country, for it records one of the greatest of our national triumphs.
The period to which I have carried the history in this volume, may be considered the termination of the "Famine." The succeeding winter and spring were marked by severe distress, - which indeed still prevails in certain localities, - but the improving condition of the markets, the great decrease of indigence as compared with that of the winter season of 1862, and the salutary influence of the Union Relief Aid and the Public Works Acts, suggest that the crisis had been passed at the close of the Session of 1863. Much that would be an iteration of the doings and sufferings of 1862 remains to be told.
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