The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-25
SOUTHERN WOMEN
"ENDURIN" WAR
Their Battles With Adversely Almost
Those on the Field Stories of
PiLiful MakeShjftS.
Equal to

horseshoe aud the like were used TO
set the dye.
Shoes for women and children were
made OF cloth sewed to soles OF worn
out shoes or To cloth or pasteboard
soles. sometimes deXtrous slave
would make a pair of caIfskin slippers
Tor ms mistress and would receive from
the husband or father at the front $40
tor the work. Women's real shoes
came 10 cost $3.50 a pair. and later 1878.
Tor tho backing of such homemade
shoes as could be secured, a mixture
or SCOT and lard was made, while a
mint at polish consisted of a paste OF
belted meal or Hour smeared over the
black
although it is fact that the South
heiu more prisoners than the North
10000 against 22o, 000-the Lincoln adj
rninistration declared medicines con
historian, Greg, to say:
Robespierre and Napoleon alike
would have shrunk from denying TO
the enemy's hospitals medical and sur
gicai appliances OF cure and relief"
The need for drugs was great The
surgeon General of the ConfeGeracy
promulgated formula for chills-
berries o; the doEwood and the bark
OF the willow, poplar. cherry and wa
noe s'eeped IN whiskey. Strip of
| mullen and wild cherry bark were
used for colds. Opium was made ~
nome When the bulb OF the poppy
was ripe IL was pricked with a needle
ana put in 81 vessel for the gum 10
ehudc. The caste" bean was grown and
IT'S oil extracted by crude contrivanccs
Draper gives the observation of n
Northern lady as TO the appearance of
some Southern prisoners captured al
Shiloh:
How awfully they were dressed,
hey wore carpets. ladies quilts. bed
covers for blankets: SLOUGH hats. chill
crens hats. little girls hats-bu, moi
one a soldiers cap
And so 1t was. In every communi.,
sewing societies were formed 10 make
CIothinE Tor the men and boys at the
iront-by June, 1861 the Nashville So
cieiy numbered 23l ladies'. The cloth
material was given from the scant sun
ply or the home-and this supply he
. came .pittfully scant as the war went
IN RIVER! KIND OF garment was utii-
Suits were made out o, o,,o,o,,
tahiecoters lined with flannel; carriers
We're cut up for suits and lined win
cotton The Legislature Of AIabam,
~ Joint resolution. ordered that tho
carpets In the State House be taken
up ana made into blankets; and even
the hoors of the South were hare az
the idea spread swiftly. Sheets. covers.
slips ana all linep were made into
garments or rolled into bandages
The time came when the women had
To he even more sacrincinr The brass
Kettles and every other piece of brass
were drafter TO go into cannon; the
l"aden window weights made bullets:
the glass demijohns were converted
INTO contact torpedoes to close the
channels of the river.
Amid all this the women of the
large plantations and little farms he
came overseers They directed the
trusty old slaves-and few were un-
faithful-how TO manage the crops:
they saw that the slaves were fed and
clothed: and st.ll had time To write to
the soldiers Ia keep up heart
Amid all this. too. how many nights
must nave been spent in anxiety over
the fear OF servile insurrection, with
none to defend them excepting the
helpless old men and children Busi-
ness cares that would have driven men
To drink; fears of instruction that
would have made brave men turn
pale: news OF the death at the front
Of husbands, fathers. sons and
brothers: the plunderine of the off
scourings OF both armies; and thew
hravely faced it all, and lived Was
there ever before--wili there ever he
again-such indomitable womanhoodc
If there is any one thing that the
Ohlted states ought always to he
proud IL should be the memory of the
Southern womanhood of the sixties
If there is one thing the people of
the South should not forget TO do. it
Is to build that monument to the tens
of thousands of slaves who remained
true to the families back at home, and
whose moral training and devotion
were the finest tribute to Southern
civiliza Nashville Banner.