"I attended a funeral once in Pickens County in my State .... They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh ... The South didn't furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground. There they put him away and the clods rattled down on his coffin, and they buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati, leaving him nothing to carry into the next world with him to remind him of the
country in which he lived, and for which he fought for four years, but the chill of blood in his veins and the marrow in his bones."
-Henry Grady, Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, 1889.
The key idea in the excerpt is that Grady believes
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the Civil War damaged the southern economy
former Confederate soldiers deserved better treatment
the secession of the Confederacy was justified
the South needed to industrialize
