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Atlanta
had
watched
while
train
after
train
rolled
through
the
town
,
hour
after
hour
,
passenger
coaches
,
box
cars
,
flat
cars
,
filled
with
shouting
men
.
They
had
come
without
food
or
sleep
,
without
their
horses
,
ambulances
or
supply
trains
and
,
without
waiting
for
the
rest
,
they
had
leaped
from
the
trains
and
into
the
battle
.
And
the
Yankees
had
been
driven
out
of
Georgia
,
back
into
Tennessee
.
It
was
the
greatest
feat
of
the
war
,
and
Atlanta
took
pride
and
personal
satisfaction
in
the
thought
that
its
railroads
had
made
the
victory
possible
.
But
the
South
had
needed
the
cheering
news
from
Chickamauga
to
strengthen
its
morale
through
the
winter
.
No
one
denied
now
that
the
Yankees
were
good
fighters
and
,
at
last
,
they
had
good
generals
.
Grant
was
a
butcher
who
did
not
care
how
many
men
he
slaughtered
for
a
victory
,
but
victory
he
would
have
.
Sheridan
was
a
name
to
bring
dread
to
Southern
hearts
.
And
,
then
,
there
was
a
man
named
Sherman
who
was
being
mentioned
more
and
more
often
.
He
had
risen
to
prominence
in
the
campaigns
in
Tennessee
and
the
West
,
and
his
reputation
as
a
determined
and
ruthless
fighter
was
growing
.
None
of
them
,
of
course
,
compared
with
General
Lee
.
Faith
in
the
General
and
the
army
was
still
strong
.
Confidence
in
ultimate
victory
never
wavered
.
But
the
war
was
dragging
out
so
long
.
There
were
so
many
dead
,
so
many
wounded
and
maimed
for
life
,
so
many
widowed
,
so
many
orphaned
.
And
there
was
still
a
long
struggle
ahead
,
which
meant
more
dead
,
more
wounded
,
more
widows
and
orphans
.
To
make
matters
worse
,
a
vague
distrust
of
those
in
high
places
had
begun
to
creep
over
the
civilian
population
.
Many
newspapers
were
outspoken
in
their
denunciation
of
President
Davis
himself
and
the
manner
in
which
he
prosecuted
the
war
.
There
were
dissensions
within
the
Confederate
cabinet
,
disagreements
between
President
Davis
and
his
generals
.
The
currency
was
falling
rapidly
.
Shoes
and
clothing
for
the
army
were
scarce
,
ordnance
supplies
and
drugs
were
scarcer
.
The
railroads
needed
new
cars
to
take
the
place
of
old
ones
and
new
iron
rails
to
replace
those
torn
up
by
the
Yankees
.
The
generals
in
the
field
were
crying
out
for
fresh
troops
,
and
there
were
fewer
and
fewer
fresh
troops
to
be
had
.
Worst
of
all
,
some
of
the
state
governors
,
Governor
Brown
of
Georgia
among
them
,
were
refusing
to
send
state
militia
troops
and
arms
out
of
their
borders
.
There
were
thousands
of
able-bodied
men
in
the
state
troops
for
whom
the
army
was
frantic
,
but
the
government
pleaded
for
them
in
vain
.
With
the
new
fall
of
currency
,
prices
soared
again
.
Beef
,
pork
and
butter
cost
thirty-five
dollars
a
pound
,
flour
fourteen
hundred
dollars
a
barrel
,
soda
one
hundred
dollars
a
pound
,
tea
five
hundred
dollars
a
pound
.
Warm
clothing
,
when
it
was
obtainable
at
all
,
had
risen
to
such
prohibitive
prices
that
Atlanta
ladies
were
lining
their
old
dresses
with
rags
and
reinforcing
them
with
newspapers
to
keep
out
the
wind
.
Shoes
cost
from
two
hundred
to
eight
hundred
dollars
a
pair
,
depending
on
whether
they
were
made
of
"
cardboard
"
or
real
leather
.
Ladies
now
wore
gaiters
made
of
their
old
wool
shawls
and
cut-up
carpets
.
The
soles
were
made
of
wood
.
The
truth
was
that
the
North
was
holding
the
South
in
a
virtual
state
of
siege
,
though
many
did
not
realize
it
.
The
Yankee
gunboats
had
tightened
the
mesh
at
the
ports
and
very
few
ships
were
now
able
to
slip
past
the
blockade
.
The
South
had
always
lived
by
selling
cotton
and
buying
the
things
it
did
not
produce
,
but
now
it
could
neither
sell
nor
buy
.
Gerald
O'Hara
had
three
years
'
crops
of
cotton
stored
under
the
shed
near
the
gin
house
at
Tara
,
but
little
good
it
did
him
.
In
Liverpool
it
would
bring
one
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
,
but
there
was
no
hope
of
getting
it
to
Liverpool
.
Gerald
had
changed
from
a
wealthy
man
to
a
man
who
was
wondering
how
he
would
feed
his
family
and
his
negroes
through
the
winter
.
