A blockaded family life in southern Alabama during the Civil War / Parthenia Antoinette Hague.

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Originally published: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1888.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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Introduction to the Bison Book Edition ; Chapter I. Beginnings of the Secession Movement -- A Negro Wedding ; Chapter II. Devices Rendered Necessary by the Blockade -- How the South Met a Great Emergency ; Chapter III. War-time Scenes on an Alabama Plantation -- Southern Women-their Ingenuity and Courage ; Chapter IV. How Cloth Was Dyed -- How Shoes, Thread, Hats, and Bonnets Were Manufactured

Chapter V. Homespun Dresses -- Home -- Made Buttons and Pasteboard -- Uncle Ben Chapter VI. Aunt Phillis and Her Domestic Trials -- Knitting Around the Fireside -- Tramp, Tramp of the Spinners ; Chapter VII. Weaving Heavy Cloth -- Expensive Prints -- "" Blood Will Tell ""

Chapter VIII. Substitutes for Coffee -- Raspberry-leaf Tea -- Home-made Starch, Putty, and Cement -- Spinning Bees Chapter IX. Old-time Hoofcskirts -- How the Slaves Lived -- Their Barbecues

Chapter X. Painful Realities of Civil Strife -- Straitened Condition of the South -- Treatment of Prisoners Chapter XI. Homespun Weddings -- A Pathetic Incident -- Approach of the Northern. Army

Chapter XII. Pillage and Plunder -- "" Papa's Fine Stock "" -- The South Overrun by Soldiers Chapter XIII. Return of the Vanquished -- Poverty of the Confederates ; Chapter XIV. Repairing Damages -- A Mother Made Happy -- Conclusion