CONTENTS

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ISymposium 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]
IITheir 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]
IIITheir 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]
IVTheir 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]
VTheir 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]
VIMater 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]