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