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Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy

Parthenia Hague experienced the Civil War while employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. This book recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy. The memoir of Parthenia Hague is a detailed look at the ingenious industry and self-sufficiency employed by anxious citizens as the northern army closed in.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vii
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  1. Introduction to the Bison Book Edition
  2. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  3. pp. ix-xxviii
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  1. Chapter I. Beginnings of the Secession Movement — A Negro Wedding
  2. pp. 30-44
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  1. Chapter II. Devices Rendered Necessary by the Blockade — How the South Met a Great Emergency
  2. pp. 45-59
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  1. Chapter III. War-time Scenes on an Alabama Plantation — Southern Women—their Ingenuity and Courage
  2. pp. 60-73
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  1. Chapter IV. How Cloth Was Dyed — How Shoes, Thread, Hats, and Bonnets Were Manufactured
  2. pp. 74-89
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  1. Chapter V. Homespun Dresses — Homespun Dresses — Home - Made Buttons and Pasteboard — Uncle Ben
  2. pp. 90-104
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  1. Chapter VI. Aunt Phillis and Her Domestic Trials — Knitting Around the Fireside — Tramp, Tramp of the Spinners
  2. pp. 105-117
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  1. Chapter VII. Weaving Heavy Cloth — Expensive Prints — " Blood Will Tell "
  2. pp. 118-129
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  1. Chapter VIII. Substitutes for Coffee — Raspberry-leaf Tea — Home-made Starch, Putty, and Cement — Spinning Bees
  2. pp. 130-141
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  1. Chapter IX. Old-time Hoofcskirts — How the Slaves Lived — Their Barbecues
  2. pp. 142-153
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  1. Chapter X. Painful Realities of Civil Strife — Straitened Condition of the South — Treatment of Prisoners
  2. pp. 154-165
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  1. Chapter XI. Homespun Weddings — A Pathetic Incident — Approach of the Northern. Army
  2. pp. 166-182
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  1. Chapter XII. Pillage and Plunder — " Papa's Fine Stock " — The South Overrun by Soldiers
  2. pp. 183-192
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  1. Chapter XIII. Return of the Vanquished — Poverty of the Confederates
  2. pp. 193-198
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  1. Chapter XIV. Repairing Damages — A Mother Made Happy — Conclusion
  2. pp. 199-205
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