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