The Women of the Confederacy

The young women and girls brightly and cordially cheered every Confederate volunteer. Nothing was too good for him, and smiles of sisterly esteem and love met him at every turn....

This would be a dark world without old maids--God bless them! No one can measure their usefulness. Many a one of them has never married because she has never found a man good en...

From her invalid chair in New York the revered and beloved wife of the great chieftain of the Confederacy writes a personal letter to the author of this volume, from which he ta...

For twenty years after the close of the war most of the Southern States, through the bayonet-enforced amendments to the Constitution and the carpet-bag negro governments establi...

But I found myself thoroughly reinstated--with surgeons, matrons and Miss Deborah--when I appeared a few days later, accompanied by a man bearing a basket of clean, well-rolled...

In no sense does the author offer the suggestions in this section as an apology for the course of Southern women or men in the war between the States. They are presented simply...

Throughout the South the women went to work from the first drum-beat. A great deal of it was done privately, the left hand itself hardly knowing what the modest, humble right ha...