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His apology for Shiloh was : `` You see I thout I 'd name the last one Appomattox . Then came a little one befo ' her mammy died , so weak an ' pitiful I named her Shiloh . '' It was the boast of their grandmother -- that these children -- even little Shiloh -- aged seven -- worked from ten to twelve hours every day in the cotton factory , rising before day and working often into the night , with forty minutes at noon for lunch . They had not had a holiday since Christmas , and on the last anniversary of that day they had worked until ten o'clock , making up for lost time . Their pay was twenty-five cents a day -- except Shiloh , who received fifteen . `` But I 'll soon be worth mo ' , pap , '' she would say as she crawled up into the old man 's lap -- her usual place when she had eaten her supper and wanted to rest . `` An you know what I 'm gwine do with my other nickel every day ?