A Blockaded Family : Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hague, Parthenia Antoinette, 1838-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hague, Parthenia Antoinette, > 1838-
Plantation life.
Blockade.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
Vie dans les plantations > Alabama > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Plantation life > Alabama > History > 19th century.
United States.
Alabama.
Alabama > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession)
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Recits personnels des confederes.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Blockades.
Alabama > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Confederate.
Recits personnels.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Personal narratives > Confederate.
History.
Personal Narrative
Autobiography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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