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.