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as well as men have been equally ready to enter 

 into like relations with Southern women. In the 

 case of wealthy women, some have thus married as 

 much to save their property as to secure a hus 

 band. 



How far this element of pacification has already 

 progressed, may be seen by the following statement 

 of an army correspondent of the Tribune. 



&quot; I learn from the most undoubted sources, that in New 

 Orleans, .Yicksburg, Memphis, and in smaller places where 

 we have permanent military posts, nothing has become 

 more common than for our soldiers to marry the women of 

 the country. At Memphis, from fifteen to twenty such 

 marriages occur weekly. Let us look at this with the light 

 which social science gives us. Xaturally, men establish and 

 live in society. Whatever may be their occupation fight 

 ing, trading, or farming thev will associate in societv, and 

 the foundation of this is the family relation. Where oppor 

 tunity affords, no great length of time can pass in which 

 society will not be organized. It is now from two to three 

 years that we have held most of the places named, and, as 

 a consequence, men without wives, and women without 

 husbands, unite to form a new society, for the old one was, 

 if not destroyed, greatly disrupted, and this, without regard 

 to the fact that formerly they were bitterly opposed to each 

 other. At first widows with large property and no one to 

 attend to it, accepted Union husbands, hoping, and with good 

 grounds, to save their wealth. I know of several young men 

 of good qualities who thus have become rich. I know of one 

 who in a mouth after marriage, sold $50,000 worth of cotton, 

 which the widow for six mouths had tried to sell in vain. 

 Other ladies, whose&quot; fathers and brothers were in the Rebel 

 army, and had no homes, married; and now, some with 



