{"id":2146,"date":"2023-03-24T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/2146"},"modified":"2020-01-18T22:41:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T03:41:24","slug":"a-sad-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-sad-spectacle\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">March 24, 1863, <em>Daily Southern Crisis<\/em> (Jackson, Mississippi)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0We learn from the Atlanta Intelligencer that, one day last week, a party of ladies some dozen in number, the wives and daughters of soldiers in the field, were seen parading the streets of that city who represented themselves and their families to have been deprived of anything to eat in the few days previous, save a small portion of corn bread. \u00a0 They proceeded to a store of a Provision Merchant and entered, led by a tall lady whose countenance betrayed care, and who was the spokeswoman of the crowd. \u00a0 She asked the price of bacon. \u00a0 The merchant told her one dollar and ten cents per pound. \u00a0 She remonstrated with him on the exhorbitance of the price and told him how impossible it was for ladies situated as they were to purchase food at such rates. \u00a0 Finding him inexorable, she drew from her bosom a navy revolver and ordered the other women to proceed to help themselves, which they did, carrying off about two hundred dollars&#8217; worth of provisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Subsequently a fund was subscribed by the liberal citizens of Atlanta and placed at the disposal of these ladies, but they could not be found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Confederacy gives a different version to the story, and says that there were about fifteen or twenty of these hungry females, all decently and some even well-dressed\u2013wearing golden ear-bobs and breast-pins\u2013who went round to various houses in the city and pressed provisions\u2013taking bacon at one place, meal at another, vegetables at another, &amp;c., &amp;c.\u00a0 They did not plead poverty, or pressing want, or solicit donations, or anything of the kind. They had money and were doing government service whereby they could make money. \u00a0 They were only determined not to pay the common prices for provisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0The Confederacy says they were only following the example previously set them by Governor Brown, but the results were not the same.\u00a0 When the Governor seized provisions, the people submitted to it; but when the ladies aforesaid attempted it, the police was put upon their track and soon dispersed them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 24, 1863, Daily Southern Crisis (Jackson, Mississippi) \u00a0We learn from the Atlanta Intelligencer that, one day last week, a party of ladies some dozen in number, the wives and daughters of soldiers in the field, were seen parading the streets of that city who represented themselves and their families to have been deprived of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}