A Helping Hand
Nov 01, 2020
3 minutes
by Heather Cox Richardson
The spring season is hard in any agricultural society. Farmers rely on plants and animals, but plants are too small to harvest and animals are too young to eat in the spring. In the final months of the Civil War in the spring of 1865, things were not just hard in the South, they were desperate. Frightened families had abandoned their homes as Union troops invaded. No one had
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