A Female Raid Analysis

“A Female Raid” was a newspaper article wrote by J.J. Bruner who was the writer and editor of the Carolina Watchman printed on March 23, 1863. A weekly newspaper in Salisbury, North Carolina in Rowan County published from July 28, 1832 until December 30, 1867. It was for all citizens of Rowan County. It reported everyday news but also used its pages to promote social and political change. It is unclear if the opinions where of the writer, the publisher or both. This article was to show how a raid that took place was the responsibility of not just the participants but also the merchants and the county commissioners. In this article, he tells of a raid carried out by 40 to 50 soldier’s wives upon merchants in the town. J.J. Bruner states that two things caused the raid, “the practice of speculating in provisions” by the merchants and “the pinching want” of the soldiers families (A Female Raid). Consequently, this shows why the soldiers wives chose to carry out this raid. It does not excuse them for participating in the raid stating, “You passed by these Commissioners on Wednesday and made your demand on those you considered …show more content…
The County had given the commissioners $50,000 and the state Legislature had given Rowan County $16,000 more to provide relief to soldiers’ families. There were businesses that were trying to make a profit from the war selling goods to whichever side could pay the most for their goods. There is a lot of information about the soldiers that fought during the civil war and the politicians during that time but very little about, all the struggles that the women and children left behind had to deal with. Women considered not smart or capable enough of dealing with business matters found themselves taken advantage of since the men were not there to take care of it for