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In this account of the occupation of Memphis by Federal troops, the correspondent emphasized the loyalty of the locals and their eagerness to trade. He described stores of cotton and sugar hidden from the Confederates brought out to be sold in Union…

Photos from fellow activist Donald Loggins show New York City's first community garden being planted in 1973, on the corner of Bowery and Houston

This report from the New York Herald examined the economic impact of the war on New England. While many factories shut down because of the cotton shortage, the article reported that textile workers were gainfully employed as newly enlisted soldiers…

News article reporting the closing of textile mills in Fall River, MA.

This editorial, originally from the Providence Post but reprinted in the Columbian Register, discussed views on abolition in England. The correspondent asserted that the British care more for a stable cotton supply than the freedom of the slaves and…

Hand drawn poster from the National Child Welfare Association on 70 fifth Avenue in New York City depicting children tending to garden plots in front of a school building

1918 Proclamation signed by John F. Hylan, the 96th Mayor of the City of the New York, declaring the punishment of any person caught destroying crops or entering gardens illegally with negative intentions.

This is a photograph of the present-day site where Fort Amsterdam formerly stood.

The New York Herald published the testimony of Confederate officer regarding the effects of the official cotton trade between the Union and the Confederacy. According to the transcript, the cotton trade directly prolonged the war by giving the…

State Department dispatch to William Seward from William Dayton, recounting Louis Napoleon III's desperation to procure cotton for France.