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rially increase. There was an actual decline in the number of
bales. On the other hand, there was a steady increase in the
direct shipment to manufactories."
The following table records the overland movement during the
decade immediately preceding the war:,
Years Bales Years Bales
1851-1852.. ......... 175 1856-1857 .. . 4,754
1852-1853 ............. 9,470 1857-1858.. 9,624
1853-1854 .......... .. 12,430 1858-1859 ..... 85,321
1854-1855.... ...... 7,661 1859-1860 . .. 108,676
1855-1856. ........ 14,215 1860-1861 143,424
No statistics were kept of this movement during the war, al-
though it is a well established fact that considerable cotton was
moved overland from the South during the war to supply north-
ern manufactories.' The following table8 will show the rapid in-
crease in the movement after the war:
Direct to To Northern Total
Year Manufactories, Markets, Overland,
Bales Bales Bales
1866 ............. . .............. ... . 211,885 211,885
1867 ........... ... . ........ ..... .. 185,712 185,712
1868..... ................... 170,553 204,337 374,860
1869..................... .. 258,611 181,189 439,800
1870.. . ........... 153,825 196,591 350,416
1871. ............ ...... 228,923 336,996 565,919
1872 .............. .. 122,065 220,121 342,186
1873.... ......... 140,500 260,789 402,296
1874.. ........... 237,572 259,511 497,083
1875 ................ ........ 191 604 252,616 444,220
1876.. ....... ..... ..... 305 327 390,295 696,622
1877 ................... 312,789 314,803 627, 595
1878... .... ........ 295 506 384,927 680,233
1879 ................ 439,842 431,115 870,957
1880.. ... ............. 518,240 559,793 1,134,004
1881 ... 508,327 559,793 1,068,120
1882 .................. ..... 489, 170 597,047 1,086,217
1883 641,801 536,759 1,178,560
1884. .............................. 591,580 397,700 989,280
1885................. 633,241 295,470 929,711
1886................................ 859,782 323,262 1,183,044
"Report on Internal Commerce, 1886, lxviii.
"Reports on Internal Commerce, 1882, 81-82.
7Coulter, E. M., "Commercial Intercourse with the Confederacy in the
Mississippi Valley, 1861-1865," in Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
IV (March, 1919), 377-395, passim.
'Report on Internal Commerce, 1886, lxviii; Railroad Gazette, XIII,
1881, 603. The year ending August 21 is used in this table.138
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