Today is Joe Cain Day A Brief Story of Joe Cain The civil war
had halted all revelry. Joseph Stillwell Cain was a store clerk
in Mobile, Alabama in 1865, who had noticed how much the war had
mentally worn down the populace. He, like most of his fellow
Mobilians, were still under Union occupation, but the mental war
between the ex-confederate soldiers and union authorities still
raged and was taking a toll. During the occupation several
edicts had come down from Union leaders in an effort to totally
break the the will of the the Mobilians. To make matters worse,
finding themselves "men without a country" following the end of
the Civil War, members of any branch of the Confederate forces
were forced to sign "Amnesty oaths", to restore their
citizenship rights. After all, these were the people and
soldiers that kept Union forces at bay, even after the battle
and fall of Mobile Bay to the Union Navy in 1864. During the
"bread riot of 1863, and the Union blockade which substantially
reduced the trade in Mobile for