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Title: The Women of the Confederacy

Author: J. L. Underwood

Release date: August 4, 2011 [eBook #36969]
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Language: English

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THE WOMEN OF THE
CONFEDERACY

In which is presented the heroism of the women of the Confederacy with accounts of their trials during the War and the period of Reconstruction, with their ultimate triumph over adversity. Their motives and their achievements as told by writers and orators now preserved in permanent form.

BY
REV. J. L. UNDERWOOD

Master of Arts, Mercer University, Captain and Chaplain in the Confederate Army

New York and Washington
THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1906

DEDICATION

To the memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas Curry, whose remains rest under the live oaks at Bainbridge, Ga., who cheerfully gave every available member of her family to the Confederate Cause, and with her own hands made their gray jackets, and who gave to the author her Christian patriot daughter, who has been the companion, the joy and the crown of his long and happy life, this volume is most affectionately dedicated.

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I	Symposium of Tributes to Confederate Women	19
	Mrs. Varina Jefferson Davis	19
	Tribute of President Jefferson Davis	20
	Tribute of a Wounded Soldier	21
	Tribute of a Federal Private Soldier	21
	Joseph E. Johnston’s Tribute	22
	Stonewall Jackson’s Female Soldiers	23
	Gen. J. B. Gordon’s Tribute	23
	General Forrest’s Tribute	24
	Tribute of Gen. M. C. Butler	24
	Tribute of Gen. Marcus J. Wright	26
	Tribute of Dr. J. L. M. Curry	26
	Address of Col. W. R. Aylett Before Pickett Camp	28
	Gen. Bradley T. Johnson’s Speech at the Dedication of South’s Museum	28
	Governor C. T. O’Ferrall’s Tribute	30
	Tribute of Judge J. H. Reagan, of Texas, Postmaster-General of Confederate States	32
	General Freemantle (of the British Army)	33
	Sherman’s “Tough Set”	33
	Tribute of General Buell	34
	Tribute of Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York	34
	Heroic Men and Women (President Roosevelt)	35
	The Women of the South	36
	Eulogy on Confederate Women	41
II	Their Work	70
	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

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THE WOMEN OF THE
CONFEDERACY

DEDICATION

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