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Introduction to Woman's Work

70

The Southern Woman's Song

71

The Ladies of Richmond

72

The Hospital After Seven Pines

73

Burial of Latane

73

Making Clothes for the Soldiers

74

The Ingenuity of Southern Women

75

Mrs. Lee and the Socks

77

Fitting Out a Soldier

77

The Thimble Brigade

79

Noble Women of Richmond

80

From Matoaca Gay's Articles in the _Philadelphia Times_ 81

The Women of Richmond

82

Two Georgia Heroines

83

The Seven Days' Battle

83

Death of Mrs. Sarah K. Rowe, "The Soldiers'

Friend" 92

"You Wait"

93

Annandale--Two Heroines of Mississippi

95

A Plantation Heroine

98

Lucy Ann Cox

100

"One of Them Lees"

101

Southern Women in the War Between the States 101

A Mother of the Confederacy

104

"The Great Eastern"

105

Cordial for the Brave

106

Hospital Work and Women's Delicacy

107

A Wayside Home at Millen

108

A Noble Girl

110

The Good Samaritan

110

Female Relatives Visit the Hospitals

111

Mania for Marriage

116

Government Clerkships

117

Schools in War Times

118

Humanity in the Hospitals

118

Mrs. Davis and the Federal Prisoner

119

Socks that Never Wore Out

120

Burial of Aunt Matilda

120

"Illegant Pair of Hands"

121

The Gun-boat "Richmond"

122

Captain Sally Tompkins

124

The Angel of the Hospital

125

III THEIR TRIALS

127

Old Maids

127

A Mother's Letter

129

Tom and his Young Master

130

"I Knew You Would Come"

131

Letters from the Poor at Home

132

Life in Richmond During the War

133

The Women of New Orleans

140

"Incorrigible Little Devil"

141

The Battle of the Handkerchiefs

142

The Women of New Orleans and Vicksburg Prisoners 144

"It Don't Trouble Me"

147

Savage War in the Valley

147

Mrs. Robert Turner, Woodstock, Va.

148

High Price of Needles And Thread

149

Despair at Home--Heroism at the Front

151

The Old Drake's Territory

152

The Refugee in Richmond

154

Desolations of War

155

Death of a Soldier

156

Mrs. Henrietta E. Lee's Letter To General Hunter 159

Sherman's Bummers

161

Reminiscences of the War Times--a Letter 163

Aunt Myra and the Hoe-cake

164

"The Corn Woman"

166

General Atkins at Chapel Hill

167

Two Specimen Cases of Desertion

167

Sherman in South Carolina

171

Old North State's Trials

173

Sherman in North Carolina

175

Mrs. Vance's Trunk--General Palmer's Gallantry 177

The Eventful Third of April

178

The Federals Enter Richmond

181

Somebody's Darling

183

IV THEIR PLUCK

185

Female Recruiting Officers

185

Mrs. Susan Roy Carter

186

J. L. M. Curry's Women Constituents

191

Nora McCarthy

192

Women in the Battle of Gainesville, Florida 194

"She Would Send Ten More"

195

Women at Vicksburg

196

"Mother, Tell Him Not To Come"

198

Brave Woman in Decatur, Georgia

201

Giving Warning To Mosby

204

"Ain't You Ashamed of You'uns?"

211

False Teeth

212

Emma Sansom

213

President Roosevelt's Mother and Grandmother 215

The Little Girl at Chancellorsville

217

Saved Her Hams

217

Heroism of a Widow

218

Winchester Women

219

Sparta in Mississippi

219

"Woman's Devotion"--A Winchester Heroine 220

Spoken Like Cornelia

222

A Specimen Mother

223

Mrs. Rooney

224

Warning by a Brave Girl

226

A Plucky Girl With a Pistol

227

Mosby's Men And Two Noble Girls

228

A Spartan Dame and her Young

230

Singing Under Fire

231

A Woman's Last Word

232

Two Mississippi Girls Hold Yankees at Pistol Point 233

"War Women" of Petersburg

234

John Allen's Cow

235

The Family That Had No Luck

235

Brave Women at Resaca, Georgia

237

A Woman's Hair

238

A Breach of Etiquette

240

Lola Sanchez's Ride

241

The Rebel Sock

244

V THEIR CAUSE

246

Introductory Note to Their Cause

246

"When This Cruel War Is Over"

246

Northern Men Leaders of Disunion

247

The Union vs. A Union

248

The Northern States Secede From the Union 253

Frenzied Finance and the War of 1861

255

The Right of Secession

260

The Cause Not Lost

262

Slavery as the South Saw It

262

Vindication of Southern Cause

263

Northern View of Secession

266

Major J. Scheibert on Confederate History 268

VI MATER REDIVIVA

271

Introductory Note

271

The Empty Sleeve

272

The Old Hoopskirt

273

The Political Crimes of the Nineteenth Century 276

Brave to the Last

280

Sallie Durham

281

The Negro and the Miracle

283

Georgia Refugees

284

The Negroes And New Freedom

286

The Confederate Museum in the Capital of the Confederacy 287

Federal Decoration Day--Adoption from Our Memorial 290

The Daughters and the United Daughters of the Confederacy 291

A Daughter's Plea

293

Home for Confederate Women

297

Jefferson Davis Monument

297

Reciprocal Slavery

299

Barbara Frietchie

302

Social Equality Between the Races

304

Dream of Race Superiority

308

Roosevelt at Lee's Monument

311