USS ALASKA
Captain
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- Mar 16, 2016
Was reading a railroad article from the Richmond Dispatch, 4/23/1861, p. 1...
City Railway. – This work progresses, though we imagine it will hardly be completed this season, all circumstances being taken into account. The track-layers were at work last Saturday in front of the County Court-House, operations having been commenced at the junction of Main and Pear streets, near Rocketts. A small vessel was unloading iron at the Dock, a day or two ago, which, we suppose, is for this railway. A citizen, who was looking at the work on Main street, asked us why it was that all the laborers were imported from the North, when so many of our own citizens were out of employment? We could not answer the interrogatory.
...since the date of this is about a week after Virginia seceded from the Union, (and the Battle of Fort Sumter), it just got me wondering if there was a sort of mass migration from the South to the North of those who didn't agree or want to be part of the Confederate movement. Have often read about individuals who went south to serve the Confederacy but can't recall reading anything about just the normal / average / everyday working bee that was caught up in the South and wanted to return home. Was there an exodus from the Confederacy in 1861?
Thanks for the help,
USS ALASKA
City Railway. – This work progresses, though we imagine it will hardly be completed this season, all circumstances being taken into account. The track-layers were at work last Saturday in front of the County Court-House, operations having been commenced at the junction of Main and Pear streets, near Rocketts. A small vessel was unloading iron at the Dock, a day or two ago, which, we suppose, is for this railway. A citizen, who was looking at the work on Main street, asked us why it was that all the laborers were imported from the North, when so many of our own citizens were out of employment? We could not answer the interrogatory.
...since the date of this is about a week after Virginia seceded from the Union, (and the Battle of Fort Sumter), it just got me wondering if there was a sort of mass migration from the South to the North of those who didn't agree or want to be part of the Confederate movement. Have often read about individuals who went south to serve the Confederacy but can't recall reading anything about just the normal / average / everyday working bee that was caught up in the South and wanted to return home. Was there an exodus from the Confederacy in 1861?
Thanks for the help,
USS ALASKA