Introductory material
Reading edition
CHAPTER I.
Page
Beginnings of the Secession Movement—A Negro Wedding 1
CHAPTER II.
Devices rendered necessary by the Blockade—How the South met a Great Emergency 16
CHAPTER III.
War-time Scenes on an Alabama Plantation—Southern Women—Their Ingenuity and Courage 31
CHAPTER IV.
How Cloth was dyed—How Shoes, Thread, Hats, and Bonnets were manufactured 45
CHAPTER V.
Homespun Dresses—Home-made Buttons and Pasteboard—Uncle Ben 61
CHAPTER VI.
Aunt Phillis and her Domestic Trials—Knitting around the Fireside—Tramp, Tramp of the Spinners 76
CHAPTER VII.
Weaving Heavy Cloth—Expensive Prints—“Blood will tell” 89
CHAPTER VIII.
Substitutes for Coffee—Raspberry-leaf Tea—Home-made Starch, Putty, and Cement—Spinning Bees 101
CHAPTER IX.
Old-time Hoopskirts—How the Slaves lived—Their Barbecues 113
CHAPTER X.
Painful Realities of Civil Strife—Straitened Condition of the South—Treatment of Prisoners 125
CHAPTER XI.
Homespun Weddings—A Pathetic Incident—Approach of the Northern Army 137
CHAPTER XII.
Pillage and Plunder—“Papa’s Fine Stock”—The South overrun by Soldiers 154
CHAPTER XIII.
Return of the Vanquished—Poverty of the Confederates 164
CHAPTER XIV.
Repairing Damages—A Mother made Happy—Conclusion 170
A BLOCKADED FAMILY.