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A
BLOCKADED FAMILY
LIFE IN SOUTHERN ALABAMA DURING
THE CIVIL WAR
BY
PARTHENIA ANTOINETTE HAGUE
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1888
Copyright, 1888,
By Parthenia Antoinette Hague.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
| 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.[iv] | |
| 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. | |
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