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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

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 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