One hundred fifty years ago, on April 29, 1864, Camden lawyer John Brown sees trouble ahead: Friday 29: I began to feel like myself again, but did feel two days since that I was ten years older then I was two weeks before. Our army is in hot pursuit of the Federals and it is believed will rout them. We think this part of the State will be free from invasion at least for this season, but another trouble now stares us in the face. We are deprived of teams to cultivate the crops, even those planted. - This is most strictly so where the enemy have marched or foraged but if that were all it would not be so bad, but our own soldiers have taken most of the good horses and mules from the whole country, and between the depredations of the two armies, the stock is nearly all killed out. How we are to be supported in future is a problem yet to be solved. There is much suffering already in some neighborhoods.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:00:00 +0000
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