The Women of the Confederacy

About this eBook

Author

Underwood, J. L. (John Levi), 1836-1907

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Produced by Katherine Ward and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Language

English

LoC Class

E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865)

Subject

Women -- Confederate States of America

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eBook-No.

36969

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36969

Release Date

August 4, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACY
2. 2.DEDICATION
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.INTRODUCTION BY REV. DR. J. B. HAWTHORNE
6. 6.INTRODUCTION BY REV. DR. J. WM. JONES
7. 7.AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
8. 8.CHAPTER I SYMPOSIUM OF TRIBUTES TO CONFEDERATE WOMEN — MRS. VARINA JEFFERSON DAVIS — TRIBUTE OF PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS — TRIBUTE OF A WOUNDED SOLDIER — TRIBUTE OF A FEDERAL PRIVATE SOLDIER — JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON’S TRIBUTE — STONEWALL JACKSON’S FEMALE SOLDIERS — GEN. J. B. GORDON’S TRIBUTE — GENERAL FORREST’S TRIBUTE — TRIBUTE OF GEN. M. C. BUTLER — TRIBUTE OF GEN. MARCUS J. WRIGHT — TRIBUTE OF DR. J. L. M. CURRY — ADDRESS OF COL. W. R. AYLETT BEFORE PICKETT CAMP — GEN. BRADLEY T. JOHNSON’S SPEECH AT THE DEDICATION OF SOUTH’S MUSEUM — GOVERNOR C. T. O’FERRALL’S TRIBUTE — TRIBUTE OF JUDGE J. H. REAGAN, OF TEXAS, POSTMASTER-GENERAL OF CONFEDERATE STATES — GENERAL FREEMANTLE (OF THE BRITISH ARMY) — SHERMAN’S “TOUGH SET” — TRIBUTE OF GENERAL BUELL — TRIBUTE OF JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER, OF NEW YORK — HEROIC MEN AND WOMEN — THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH — Wives of Planters — Sanitary Experts — Queen of the Kitchen — In This Generation — An Inheritance of Graciousness — A Beneficent Influence — EULOGY ON CONFEDERATE WOMEN, BY J. L. UNDERWOOD, DELIVERED IN 1896 — Image of the Southern Woman Surmounting the Monument
9. 9.CHAPTER II THEIR WORK — INTRODUCTION TO WOMAN’S WORK — THE SOUTHERN WOMAN’S SONG — THE LADIES OF RICHMOND — THE HOSPITAL AFTER SEVEN PINES — BURIAL OF LATANE — MAKING CLOTHES FOR THE SOLDIERS — THE INGENUITY OF SOUTHERN WOMEN — MRS. LEE AND THE SOCKS — FITTING OUT A SOLDIER — THE THIMBLE BRIGADE — NOBLE WOMEN OF RICHMOND — FROM MATOACA GAY’S ARTICLES IN THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES — THE WOMEN OF RICHMOND — TWO GEORGIA HEROINES — THE SEVEN DAYS’ BATTLE — DEATH OF MRS. SARAH K. ROWE, “THE SOLDIERS’ FRIEND” — “YOU WAIT” — ANNANDALE—TWO HEROINES OF MISSISSIPPI — A PLANTATION HEROINE — LUCY ANN COX — “ONE OF THEM LEES” — SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES — A MOTHER OF THE CONFEDERACY — “THE GREAT EASTERN” — CORDIAL FOR THE BRAVE — HOSPITAL WORK AND WOMEN’S DELICACY — A WAYSIDE HOME AT MILLEN — A NOBLE GIRL — THE GOOD SAMARITAN — FEMALE RELATIVES VISIT THE HOSPITALS. — Sadie Curry And “Clara Fisher” — MANIA FOR MARRIAGE — GOVERNMENT CLERKSHIPS — SCHOOLS IN WAR TIMES — HUMANITY IN THE HOSPITALS — MRS. DAVIS AND THE FEDERAL PRISONER — SOCKS THAT NEVER WORE OUT — BURIAL OF AUNT MATILDA — “ILLEGANT PAIR OF HANDS” — THE GUN-BOAT “RICHMOND” — CAPTAIN SALLY TOMPKINS — THE ANGEL OF THE HOSPITAL
10. 10.CHAPTER III THEIR TRIALS — OLD MAIDS — A MOTHER’S LETTER — TOM AND HIS YOUNG MASTER — “I KNEW YOU WOULD COME” — LETTERS FROM THE POOR AT HOME — LIFE IN RICHMOND DURING THE WAR — Happy Phases — The Dress of a Grandmother — Frightful Contrasts — General Lee Kissed the Girls — John Wise and His Big Clothes — Contrasts That Were Pretty — Loyalty of the Slaves — THE WOMEN OF NEW ORLEANS — “INCORRIGIBLE LITTLE DEVIL” — THE BATTLE OF THE HANDKERCHIEFS — The Greatest Victory of the War—La Battaille des Mouchoirs. — THE WOMEN OF NEW ORLEANS AND VICKSBURG PRISONERS — “IT DON’T TROUBLE ME” — SAVAGE WAR IN THE VALLEY — MRS. ROBERT TURNER, WOODSTOCK, VA. — HIGH PRICE OF NEEDLES AND THREAD — DESPAIR AT HOME—HEROISM AT THE FRONT — THE OLD DRAKE’S TERRITORY — THE REFUGEE IN RICHMOND — DESOLATIONS OF WAR — DEATH OF A SOLDIER — MRS. HENRIETTA E. LEE’S LETTER TO GENERAL HUNTER ON THE BURNING OF HER HOUSE — SHERMAN’S BUMMERS — REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR TIMES—A LETTER — AUNT MYRA AND THE HOE-CAKE — “THE CORN WOMAN” — GENERAL ATKINS AT CHAPEL HILL — TWO SPECIMEN CASES OF DESERTION — SHERMAN IN SOUTH CAROLINA — OLD NORTH STATE’S TRIALS — SHERMAN IN NORTH CAROLINA — MRS. VANCE’S TRUNK—GENERAL PALMER’S GALLANTRY — THE EVENTFUL THIRD OF APRIL — Spartan Richmond Ladies — THE FEDERALS ENTER RICHMOND — SOMEBODY’S DARLING
11. 11.CHAPTER IV THEIR PLUCK — FEMALE RECRUITING OFFICERS — MRS. SUSAN ROY CARTER — J. L. M. CURRY’S WOMEN CONSTITUENTS — NORA MCCARTHY — WOMEN IN THE BATTLE OF GAINESVILLE, FLA. — “SHE WOULD SEND TEN MORE” — WOMEN AT VICKSBURG — “MOTHER, TELL HIM NOT TO COME” — BRAVE WOMAN IN DECATUR, GA. — GIVING WARNING TO MOSBY — “AIN’T YOU ASHAMED OF YOU’UNS?” — FALSE TEETH — EMMA SANSOM — PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER — THE LITTLE GIRL AT CHANCELLORSVILLE — SAVED HER HAMS — HEROISM OF A WIDOW — WINCHESTER WOMEN — SPARTA IN MISSISSIPPI — “WOMAN’S DEVOTION”—A WINCHESTER HEROINE — SPOKEN LIKE CORNELIA — A SPECIMEN MOTHER — MRS. ROONEY — WARNING BY A BRAVE GIRL — A PLUCKY GIRL WITH A PISTOL — MOSBY’S MEN AND TWO NOBLE GIRLS — A SPARTAN DAME AND HER YOUNG — SINGING UNDER FIRE — A WOMAN’S LAST WORD — TWO MISSISSIPPI GIRLS HOLD YANKEES AT PISTOL POINT — “WAR WOMEN” OF PETERSBURG — JOHN ALLEN’S COW — THE FAMILY THAT HAD NO LUCK — BRAVE WOMEN AT RESACA, GA. — A WOMAN’S HAIR — A BREACH OF ETIQUETTE — LOLA SANCHEZ’S RIDE — THE REBEL SOCK A TRUE EPISODE IN SEWARD’S RAIDS ON THE OLD LADIES OF MARYLAND
12. 12.CHAPTER V THEIR CAUSE — INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO “THEIR CAUSE” — “WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER” — NORTHERN MEN LEADERS OF DISUNION — THE UNION VS. A UNION — THE NORTHERN STATES SECEDE FROM THE UNION — FRENZIED FINANCE AND THE WAR OF 1861 — THE RIGHT OF SECESSION — THE CAUSE NOT LOST — SLAVERY AS THE SOUTH SAW IT — VINDICATION OF SOUTHERN CAUSE — NORTHERN VIEW OF SECESSION — MAJOR J. SCHEIBERT (OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY) ON CONFEDERATE HISTORY — Tariff — Slavery
13. 13.CHAPTER VI MATER REDIVIVA — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — THE EMPTY SLEEVE — THE OLD HOOPSKIRT — THE POLITICAL CRIMES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY — BRAVE TO THE LAST — SALLIE DURHAM — THE NEGRO AND THE MIRACLE — GEORGIA REFUGEES — THE NEGROES AND NEW FREEDOM — THE CONFEDERATE MUSEUM IN THE CAPITAL OF THE CONFEDERACY — The Mary DeRenne Collection — FEDERAL DECORATION DAY—ADOPTION FROM OUR MEMORIAL — THE DAUGHTERS AND THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY — A DAUGHTER’S PLEA — HOME FOR CONFEDERATE WOMEN — JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT — RECIPROCAL SLAVERY — BARBARA FRIETCHIE — SOCIAL EQUALITY BETWEEN THE RACES — DREAM OF RACE SUPERIORITY — ROOSEVELT AT LEE’S MONUMENT

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