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Wounded Souls, Dried Tears, and Quilts: The Amazing Story of the Methodist Home for Children and Youth of the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church

 
 
Wounded Souls, Dried Tears, and Quilts: The Amazing Story of the Methodist Home for Children and Youth of the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church
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Wounded Souls, Dried Tears, and Quilts: The Amazing Story of the Methodist Home for Children and Youth of the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church

After the war, the Reconstruction was hard on everyone in the South. The entire region was isolated, impoverished, and devastated. Three-fourths of the wealth in Georgia had disappeared. Slaves worth $272,000,000 were set free. Money, bonds, and stocks were worthless. Forty thousand citizens were dead or gone, and cities and countryside lay in waste. The defeat of the South in the Civil War and the economic deprivations and hardships of the Reconstruction produced an astounding number of children without caregivers capable of providing for their most basic needs. In the vernacular of the day, they were orphans, half-orphans, foundlings, homeless, neglected, or indigent. Their numbers were unprecedented. The United States had a total of 170 orphanages before the Civil War and more than 600 by 1890. The time was hard on nearly everyone, but particularly hard on those disadvantaged in any way. With little federal, state, or local provisions, orphans went largely without care. Even able-bodied adults were forced to struggle for sustenance. In Columbia, South Carolina, hundreds of people scraped by for months after the war by pick-ing up loose grain from where the occupying forces' horses were fed. General Ulysses S. Grant wrote home to his wife, 'The suffering that must exist in the South the next year will be beyond conception.' In the midst of these terrible circumstances was born the Methodist Home for Children and Youth,

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Product Details:
Author: Gary Lister
Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Publication Date: May 25, 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 1419668420
Package Length: 8.0 inches
Package Width: 5.9 inches
Package Height: 0.5 inches
Package Weight: 0.3 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 1 reviews
 
 

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5This one will touch your heart!  Jun 13, 2007
By Georgia Goober "Goober"
A delightful read! I started and couldn't put it down until I'd finished the entire book. It contains wonderful stories of an instution that began as an Orphans' Home right after the War Between the States. It has very detailed research that will more than satisfy the historian -- especially those interested in Georgia history, Methodist history, Civil War history, etc. Lister states that he has plans for follow-on volumes and hope this book prompts others to tell their Home-related stories. I do to; those stories were definitely highlights and put a human face / voice on what can sometimes be viewed as an impersonal institution. I look forward to much more from this writer!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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