Chapter 277: I MISS YOU!
Li Mengyang, the emperor of the empire thousands of miles away, made such a judgment on the situation of the Civil War, is it right or not?
Atlanta......
"Hey, my Miss Gone with the Wind, your manuscript for today is fantastic!"
"Mary, I beg you, don't keep calling that name, can't you?"
At this time, the southern city of Atlanta has been like an island, and the protection of this island is a large mess of trenches, and even now in the city, each family has dug basements to prevent shells from the Northern Army, in addition, these basements can also store a lot of food and military supplies, at this time Atlanta is definitely a soldier for the whole people, because they have no way to retreat, and there are too many people who were killed by the Northern Army outside, and there are too many people who have been burned to death, and they have seen too much!
In one of the basements, two men in crude men's suits were chatting, and those who knew them knew that these two people were the current editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief of the Women's Power newspaper.
Elinor. Agnes. Lee, and Mary. Chesnat!
The editor-in-chief and associate editor-in-chief are all there, so does that mean that Women's Power is now an Atlanta-based newspaper?
Don't say it, that's pretty much it, this ......
It should be said that in ordinary newspapers, reporters or editors go deep into the war zone to cover the war, then it is good to go back after the interview, print and publish, but Eleanor's "Women's Power" is completely different, you know, this newspaper was previously headquartered in Richmond, that is, the capital of the South, and now, it is really with Eleanor moving to Atlanta!
That's weird, isn't it?
It should be said that it is. But it's actually not very strange.
Eleanor hadn't experienced the cruelty of war firsthand in Petersburg. In other words, she was a thorough war correspondent at the time. And this experience at that time, and the article she wrote later, really caused a big sensation in the American South!
Even President Jefferson. Davis met with this brave war correspondent, a brave girl. Of course, after learning that this girl turned out to be Robert. The second lady of the Li family, it is even more sensational and sensational!
However, this kind of sensation has a not very good effect. And this effect Eleanor especially didn't want.
That is, Eleanor is not young this year, she is in her twenties, if others would have married and had children, and now, our hero reporter, Robert . The daughter of the Li family is still alone with her sister-in-law, how can this work!?
As a result, many high-ranking officials of the southern government are also figures in the upper class. Everyone is trying to introduce their stupid boy to Robert. Come to the general, or be President Davis' adjutant. George. Washington. Plum.
In short, the purpose is very obvious, that is, I want to marry this girl as a daughter-in-law!
You know, this is a very good marriage, and it's hard to find it with a lantern, this girl is not only a good person, but also smart, and Robert. Lee's daughter...... Eleanor has simply become the 'national daughter-in-law' of the American South!
All southern families, as long as they have a son, want to marry her!
It came to such a point, and this matter caused Eleanor to be very disgusted.
Character-wise, Eleanor herself is a woman who doesn't like to be manipulated!
Her rebellious expressions back then were simply incisive.
And from another point of view, that is Li Mengyang's ...... Bastard!
Yes, Eleanor calls Li Mengyang a bastard now, but she can't let go of this bastard in her heart.
And for these two reasons, Eleanor naturally can't marry anyone, so she has to find a way to leave Richmond.
I didn't go to Petersburg before, but after all, Petersburg is still relatively close to Richmond, that is, dozens of miles away, so Eleanor will often face her father and brother.
But soon, Eleanor heard the news that the war in Atlanta was very urgent, and that Atlanta was very important to the South. Lee sent a heavy army.
So, in that case, it seems completely logical that our brave war correspondents want to come to Atlanta for an interview?
And because of the difficulty of information transmission in this era, it is logical to move the entire newspaper office over?!
Naturally, there were a lot of struggles and family revolutions, but Robert. Li is also distressed about his second daughter, you know, the eldest daughter is married, isn't the second daughter the meat of her heart?
So, Eleanor came to Atlanta, and directly moved the entire newspaper office!
You know, this move is not easy, although the printing press in the south is very bad, but because it is rotten, so it occupies a lot of land, so it is very difficult to move. So, this move to relocate the newspaper office was actually supported by President Davis in the South!
The train was used!
One of the most important connections between Atlanta and the South is the railroad, and there is no second means, so there is only a train to deliver supplies, and a newspaper, how much space does it have to occupy? And ah, that's a newspaper office, you have to give people paper to print newspapers, right? How much paper is still produced in Atlanta? So it's all going to be transported in by train!
There was a huge cost involved, but Davis had something else in mind, and that was morale!
The current southerners are really not having a good life, although it can't be said to be a collapse, but it's not good to be more sincere than before, but because of this, the more morale is needed. The current southerners are supported by a spiritual force, they support in the trenches, in the messy farmland, in all kinds of places, this all requires morale, that is, spiritual power!
So a good newspaper, an inspirational newspaper, can't it do just that?!
And, most crucially, Eleanor is Robert. Lee's daughter, this girl is very bold in her own right, and besides, she can't rebel at all. The article she wrote. That would be good for the South.
Her dad is now a symbol of the South!
Davis made an important instruction. It should be said that this is more like an investment, moving this newspaper over, and then publishing and distributing it is a green light, so as to boost the morale of the city of Atlanta!
Of course, newspapers will also spread to all parts of the South, trains will carry them out, and the whole South will be the first to know about the situation in Atlanta, so the morale of all Southerners will not be bad.
It should be said. Davis is really good, he sees it really thoroughly. But before that, he was also thrilling, yes, the south is also going to elect the president.
To be honest, although Davis himself has many shortcomings, and many people scold him for how he is, but the whole South really wants to find a president, that is, Davis, there is really no one else. Otherwise, it's Robert. Lee, but you have to let the general go to war, don't you?
So. This is the case in the South now, and it is hard to hold on.
And Eleanor, now this is the case, in order to escape from marriage, by the way, for the people of the South, she can only live and die with the city of Atlanta!
This is not a joke, because after coming here, Eleanor really saw too many atrocities in the north, and these things naturally fell into her pen, and these atrocities also stimulated all the people in the south, and now the southerners are really going to fight to the death with the northerners.
However, Eleanor actually got some things from a different angle, such as the South side is actually not doing very well!
Fighting, especially at this stage of confrontation, is really a test of willpower, but the problem is that many people are not very strong in willpower, so there will be deserters.
And for deserters, the approach on the southern side is very harsh, as long as the deserter is caught, it will be an end, shot!
Even the original Stonewall Jackson, he shot many of his subordinates, so such tragedies really happen from time to time. And that's not all, you know, now there is a law in the south, if anyone harbors a deserter, then the deserter will be shot together!
In this way, a lot of human tragedies naturally happened, and the reason why it is a human tragedy is because most of the people who harbor the deserters are the parents of these deserters.
But these things, Eleanor knew she couldn't write, but fortunately she only heard about such things as shooting a family, because it was useless to run away here in Atlanta.
Therefore, Eleanor is also a little aggrieved now, after all, she can't report the truth, and there is no way to do it. However, if you are aggrieved, you have to find something else to do.
"Mary, I'm resting." Eleanor and Mary talked for a while, and the manuscript for tomorrow was finalized.
"Oh, okay, but let me warn you, don't scold too hard, hurt yourself." Mary's words...... It's weird!
Why?
When Eleanor watched Mary leave her basement, she took out a small notebook with letters written densely on it, could this mean that Eleanor was going to write something? Or is it a diary or something?
"Clint. Plum! You big bastard! Clint. Plum! You bastard! Clint. Li ......"
didn't write it, Eleanor just scolded it in this basement where there was no one else!
Anyway, all the swear words that can be thought of are added to Clint. Lee's body.
It turns out that this is because of this, that Mary should have felt it, but ...... Is it just scolding?
Eleanor, who had been scolding for a while, her eyes slowly moistened, she stopped scolding, she picked up a pencil and wrote in the book.
"Clint, I miss you!
Clint, I saw a little guy today, he sneezed like you, I miss you!
Clint, Atlanta is beautiful at night, with lots of stars, like the riverside of the Potomac River, I miss you!
Clint, I'm thinking, if Atlanta is breached, maybe I'll be free, I miss you!
Clint, you bastard must be in for a treat...... I miss you!
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…… Miss you! (To be continued......)
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