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A Blockaded Family : Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2005]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to the Bison Book Edition ; Chapter I. Beginnings of the Secession Movement
- A Negro Wedding ; Chapter II. Devices Rendered Necessary by the Blockade
- How the South Met a Great Emergency ; Chapter III. War-time Scenes on an Alabama Plantation
- Southern Women-their Ingenuity and Courage ; Chapter IV. How Cloth Was Dyed
- How Shoes, Thread, Hats, and Bonnets Were Manufactured.
- Chapter V. Homespun Dresses
- Home
- Made Buttons and Pasteboard
- Uncle Ben Chapter VI. Aunt Phillis and Her Domestic Trials
- Knitting Around the Fireside
- Tramp, Tramp of the Spinners ; Chapter VII. Weaving Heavy Cloth
- Expensive Prints
- "" Blood Will Tell ""
- Chapter VIII. Substitutes for Coffee
- Raspberry-leaf Tea
- Home-made Starch, Putty, and Cement
- Spinning Bees Chapter IX. Old-time Hoofcskirts
- How the Slaves Lived
- Their Barbecues.
- Chapter X. Painful Realities of Civil Strife
- Straitened Condition of the South
- Treatment of Prisoners Chapter XI. Homespun Weddings
- A Pathetic Incident
- Approach of the Northern. Army.
- Chapter XII. Pillage and Plunder
- "" Papa's Fine Stock ""
- The South Overrun by Soldiers Chapter XIII. Return of the Vanquished
- Poverty of the Confederates ; Chapter XIV. Repairing Damages
- A Mother Made Happy
- Conclusion.