Our Women in the War

About This Book

As the title suggests, this book was compiled from a post-war speech made by the author lauding the strength of character displayed by the women in the South’s struggle for independence. “The Southern women,” he declares, “encountered every form of hardship and privation.” There was difficulty, from the beginning, in obtaining necessaries or luxuries. As the years went by the privations became more and more intense. And, behind the dark specter, there was the threat of pillage, plunder, and assault upon one’s person loomed a raiding party should come within reach. The author continues, “too mu...