This is a competently told account of an overlooked episode in Civil War history. Roswell was Cherokee Indian territory until that people was forcibly relocated to Oklahoma in the 1830s. Thereafter, it became a small centre of textile manufacture, specialised in the making of rough cloth that could be finished and dyed elsewhere. As such, Roswell became an important supplier of materiel to the Confederate forces during the Civil War, for which reason William Tecumseh Sherman, the famed Union general, charged the millworkers ...
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This is a competently told account of an overlooked episode in Civil War history. Roswell was Cherokee Indian territory until that people was forcibly relocated to Oklahoma in the 1830s. Thereafter, it became a small centre of textile manufacture, specialised in the making of rough cloth that could be finished and dyed elsewhere. As such, Roswell became an important supplier of materiel to the Confederate forces during the Civil War, for which reason William Tecumseh Sherman, the famed Union general, charged the millworkers with treason for providing yarn and cloth to the rebel enemy. In 1864, Sherman's soldiers burned the mill to the ground and deported the workers, most of them women, and their families to a federal camp in Louisville. He evidently wanted, writes amateur historian Cook, to do more than that: he asked the secretary of war for permission to send all males and females who have encouraged or harboured guerrillas, including the Roswell weavers, to South America, for, he said, one thing is certain, there is a class of people, men, women, and children, who must be killed or banished before we can hope for peace and order even as far south as Tennessee. the civilians with food and clothing. Some of those refugees, however, were then taken further afield, abandoned in a railroad depot in Indianapolis and told to fend for themselves. Many of them remained in the north after the war ended, opening a textile mill in Cannelton. Cook bases her account on the reminiscences of those Indiana-relocated Roswell children and their descendants. Others returned to Georgia, and still others are lost to history entirely.
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Very Good. NDJ. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Off-the-beaten-path of common Civil War history. The story of the arrests and deportations of southern cotton mill-workers, sending them north to military prisons. This copy has a "read-only-once" look & feel. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999.
