A Thousand-Mile Walk 



Athens contains many beautiful residences. 

 I never before saw so much about a home that 

 was so evidently done for beauty only, although 

 this is by no means a universal characteristic of 

 Georgian homes. Nearly all well-to-do farmers 

 families in Georgia and Tennessee spin and 

 weave their own cloth. This work is almost all 

 done by the mothers and daughters and con 

 sumes much of their time. 



The traces of war are not only apparent on 

 the broken fields, burnt fences, mills, and woods 

 ruthlessly slaughtered, but also on the counte 

 nances of the people. A few years after a forest 

 has been burned another generation of bright 

 and happy trees arises, in purest, freshest vigor; 

 only the old trees, wholly or half dead, bear 

 marks of the calamity. So with the people of 

 this war-field. Happy, unscarred, and unclouded 

 youth is growing up around the aged, half- 

 consumed, and fallen parents, who bear in sad 

 measure the ineffaceable marks of the farth 

 est-reaching and most infernal of all civilized 

 calamities. 



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