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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... XIV. Just as soon as the railroads could be repaired and bridges builded anew, I made haste to get to my father's again to find how all had gone with them while our foes were marching through Georgia. I had tried for three months or more to get a letter or message of some sort to them, as they had to me, but all communication for the time being was completely broken up. I had spent many sad hours thinking of those at home, and was almost afraid to hear from them; but as soon as a train ran to Columbus, I ventured forth. I had traveled over the same road time and again, on my way to and from home, but now as I beheld the ruins of grim-visaged war, whichever way I cast my eyes, I must confess to a somewhat rebellious and bitter feeling. There are moments in the experience of every human being when the heart overflows like the great Egyptian river, and cannot be restrained. "O thou great God of Israel!" I cried, "why hast thou permitted this dire calamity to befall us? Why is it that our homes are so despoiled?" And I marveled not at the captive Hebrews' mournful plaint, as by the rivers of Babylon they hung their harps on the willows. As the train slowed up on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee River, I looked eagerly over to the opposite bank, where the home of my father was situated. For a few seconds my pulse must have ceased to throb, as I beheld the ruins of the city of Columbus. With others I took my seat in an omnibus and was driven to the river's edge, there to await the coming of the ferry-boat which had been built since all the bridges on the river had been burned by the hostile army. The scene seemed so unreal that like Abou Hassan, the caliph of fiction, I was thinking of biting my fingers to make sure I was really awake....
This is a memoir written by a Southern woman during the Civil War that talks about what life was like in the Deep South and the effects the North's naval blockade had.
Ms. Hague recounts her personal recollections of the civil war, describing the ingenious and laborious efforts to maintain a decent life in a small village in Alabama.
This is a memoir written by a Southern woman during the Civil War that talks about what life was like in the Deep South and the effects the North's naval blockade had.
"Giving in an easy, kindly, sympathetic style the every-day life in Southern Alabama during the dark days of Civil War." -Current Opinion Parthenio Antoinette Vardaman Hague (1838 - 1914) author, was born at Dowdels Mill, Harris County, Georgia. She finished her education in Harris County, Ga. at Hamilton female college. After graduation from Hamilton Female college, she lived in Hurtville, AL about11 miles from Eufaula, AL in Barbour County where she was a teacher on aplantation. She lived in Alabama in the 1860s. In 1888, she published a book, A BLOCKADEDFAMILY. The book was endorsed personally by Jefferson Davis and Gen. Beauregard and is a book of great interest, describing the expedients resorted to by the people of blockaded districts to procure the necessities of life. The book presents a picture of life in Southern Alabama during the civil war, the contrasting colors of which are distributed very skillfully. The patience and the heroism displayed by the women of the South during four years of conflict, especially when we take into consideration the luxury which they had formerly enjoyed, has often been acknowledged; and the book in question gives details of their daily life, of their privations, and yet of their occasional pleasures, the reading of which is sure to interest. The tone in which the story is told also commends itself. There is not a word of reproach in it, and not a note of harshness or vindictiveness sounded. So Wide and varied is the field to be yet harvested for crops of information about the home life of Southern people in the War, that we are glad to take up Miss Hague's 'A Blockaded Family.' It will be found to be a record of interest, while unpretending as a piece of literary work. Miss Hague was a governess of Southern birth and sympathy, living in the houseliold of an Alabama planter during the four years that threw women as much upon their own resources to secure the necessaries of daily life, as did the residence of the Swiss Family Robinson upon their desert isle. The author's task has been to detail the innumerable devices of herself and friends to supply cloth, shoes, hats, thread, dyes, hoop-skirts, buttons; to find substitutes for coffee, tea, raisins, starch and medicines. The castor-oil plant, growing abundantly near their house, was cultivated, and, from the beans crushed in mortars, an oil was obtained as satisfactory as any bought from the ante-bellum apothecary. Salt, in the regions remote from the seacoast and the border States, was a luxury. In some case's the salty soil under old smoke-houses was dug up and put into hoppers, from which, by a homely process of evaporation, a grey deposit was obtained, serving as salt for want of something better. Home-made pottery replaced breakages in the pantry. All of the ladies learned to card and spin and weave. So universal was the necessity for things of everyday, that while every hand and brain was lent to the task of contriving, there was less time to spend in lamentation over the increasing burden of a common care. We recommend Miss Hague's book as an interesting, and evidently unexaggerated, account of a momentous time in the history of our country.
A personal account of life in southern Alabama during the Civil War, 1861-1865, written by Parthenia Antoniette Vardaman Hague born in 1838 in Georgia. She was living near Eufaula, Alabama during this time. She wrote about her family, neighbors, friends, and other people living in southern Alabama and how they had to become self- sufficient when the North blockaded the Southern States at the beginning of the Civil War. The South was almost totally dependent on the North for food, clothing, shoes, supplies, etc., especially in southern Alabama.
This reminiscence of daily life on a Southern plantation during the Civil War was originally published in 1888. Filled with vivid details of everything from methods of making dyes and preparing foods to race relations and the effects of the war, the book is an unusual and beautifully written primary source of Southern life inside the blockade imposed by the Union.