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A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War

by Parthenia Antoinette Hague

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"Experienced the hardships of the Union naval blockade...homilies and anecdotes meant to validate the Confederacy and lament...a lost way of life." -Women in the American Civil War (2008)"Hague found medicine substitutes in the surrounding woods." -These Rugged Alabama in the Civil War (2017)"Hague tells the story of a woman who even used a surplus of watermelon to make sugar and syrup." -Daily Life in Civil War America (2009)"Giving in an easy, kindly, sympathetic style the every-day life in Southern Alabama during the dark days of Civil War." -Current OpinionParthenio Antoinette Vardaman Hag...

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