Transcriber's Note:
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A
 PICTURE
 OF THE
 DESOLATED
 STATES;
 and the work of
 RESTORATION.
 1865–1868
BY J. T. TROWBRIDGE.
AUTHOR OF “NEIGHBOR JACKWOOD,” “CUDJO’S CAVE,” ETC.
HARTFORD, CONN.
PUBLISHED BY L. STEBBINS.
1868.
Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1868,
By L. STEBBINS,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Connecticut.
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PREFACE.
In the summer of 1865, and in the following winter, Imade two visits to the South, spending four months in eightof the principal States which had lately been in rebellion.I saw the most noted battle-fields of the war. I made acquaintancewith officers and soldiers of both sides. I followedin the track of the destroying armies. I travelled by railroad,by steamboat, by stage-coach, and by private conveyance;meeting and conversing with all sorts of people, fromhigh State officials to “low-down” whites and negroes; endeavoring,at all times and in all places, to receive correctimpressions of the country, of its inhabitants, of the greatcontest of arms just closed, and of the still greater contestof principles not yet terminated.
This book is the result. It is a record of actual observationsand conversations, free from fictitious coloring. Suchstories as were told me of the war and its depredations wouldhave been spoiled by embellishment; pictures of existing conditions,to be valuable, must be faithful; and what is nowmost desirable, is not hypothesis or declamation, but the lightof plain facts upon the momentous question of the hour,which must be settled, not according to any political or sectionalbias, but upon broad grounds of Truth and EternalRight.
I have accordingly made my narrative as ample and as                        
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