The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-10-11
SOUTHERN WOMEN.
Things They Did During the Civil War.
Chicago Inter Ocean.

be was the daintiest old lady imag-
Die; and so talkative! Her'white.
i:crew curls bobbled up and down
!he emphasized every sentence with
,tion of the head or hand. She had
!, this to make herself impressive,
s her voice was SO silvery soft that
= wouldn't have been heard other
And no wonder, for she was
punded by group Of young wo-
sewing away at a lot of denim
hrcency bags which soldiers will
Absbly never need.
jHow do you like sewing for Yam
= sodiers?" a pretty girl with mis-
8,yous eyes asked her.
III never would have believed that
8havc been guilty of doing such a
a,c' answered the old lady with a
LIB. But here 1 am stitching away
Ayour squadron A men, or whatever
\ call 'em, and me such through
! through 'Southerner, too. 1 do
bier what my people in South Car
la would say. Some Of the old
!: would think that I'd lost my
2,i | reckon; that I'd gone stark
y: but 1 want to be doing some
3,g now that we are in for another
3You didn't do anything for the
s,iers in the last war, I suppose,
y tall, light-haired girl. II be-
9e you Southern women are and al
d have been physically opposed to
thing like work.
well, you believe what is absolute
!Intrue," answered the old lady, her
2:k eyes swapping, and her curls
billing furiously, ':and the quicker
! young people get such notions out
1!our heads the better. If I can
$Vince you that you are altogether
fng I shall feel myself repaid for
3ug this long trip up here. South
women not do anything for the
efederate soldiers, indeed, during
war!'
1Tell US all about it," urged a
hthcrn girl, and about twenty voices
Sked up her request.
fWell, you girls and women are get
i up your Red Cross relief societies
we had aid associations in the
Eth during the Civil War with
Pillar object. There was an aid So
~ in every neighborhood, and we
fthern women had to exercise so
|sh ingenuity that we actually did
realize what privations we were
Puring in those days of busy
|ught. The hardest task that an
society had was when the members
Rertook to make uniforms for q COM
Fy. Think Of it, dear girlsl These
|forms were made of heavy jeane,
Fen at home by our slaves. A tail
cut them out, but the mothers,
Ies, sweethearts and sisters made
~, and every stitch was handwork,
} for at that time sewing machines
Ie almost unknown We knit socks
shirts on steel and wooden ceedles
finally things come to such pass
i we had to rip the ticking from
mattresses and convert it into
IT'S for our soldiers. On every
ntation there was one or more
emakers for the slaves, and these
de up quantities of shoes out Of old
tlegs."
How did you get these things to
soldiers?" asked some one. 'Did
send them through your sanitary
lmissionP"
We didn't have such thing" an
red the old lady sadly. SIT was o
At day with an aid society when
ugh things were ready to warrant
ding a big box to the soldiers by
lie returning soldier or by some sol
IS body servant, at home to rest
le spell. AL the womeH aud cid
J, too old for service, would come
n miles. and miles arouhd to the
se where the box was being packed
,ging anything they had to send
II folks in the war. One would
1g waistcoat, one pair Of trou-
J, another shirt, and all brough.
'ethipg in the way of clothing or
es. /.
I shall never forget scene that
< place at my fathers house once
IN my brothers. valet, Bob, was go
back. Every body in the surround
country began to bring things for
to take back, and what to put
m in began 70 puzzle US. Sudden
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