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- THE WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACY
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION BY REV. DR. J. B. HAWTHORNE
- INTRODUCTION BY REV. DR. J. WM. JONES
- AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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