The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-01-28
WOMEN OF THE SOUTH
IN CIVIL AND WORLD WAR
The Lives of the Southern People
Within the Confederacy Are
Pictured Graphically in
Personal Narrative

Who babe US go with smiling tears?
Who scorned the renegade,
Who, silencing their trembling fears,
Watched, cheered, then wept and
prayed?
Who nursed our wounds with tender
care,
And then, when all was lost,
Who, lifted US from our despair
And coursed not the cost
The Women Of the South.
Albert Sidney Morton.
In publishing, under their own
auspices, 'The Women Of the South
in War Times" compiled by Mat
thew Page Andrews, the United
Daughters of the Confederacy have
made a valuable contribution to his
tory and literature.
These annals depict in graphic,
spirited, yet unexagerated words, the
lives, of the Southern people w;shln
the, sConfederscy during the four
yeaFs of its tragic existence They are
cleaned from the lips and memories
of those who underwent the expert
encess chronicled, and in some cases
the, pages reproduce the intimate dia-
riesiof women whose pens jotted
down the actual happenings of days
VIXEN the Southern peopleSlived from
hour to hour and .tAe lives of women
were concentrated in efforts to pro-
mote the success of the cause for
which fathers, husbands and sons
fought; in efforts to feed and clothe
soldiers who were fighting in latter
ed clothing and upon almost empty
stosaaehs, and to nurse with equal
eare the wounded OF '5onfeaorate
and Federal forces.
It's a book ably edited and writ
en- without rancor, and ore CT the
strongest impressions made upon
the reader is that it reveals the in
most thoughts Of Christian peo-
pie bearing the burdens and suff-
erirgs resultant upon state CT
war. It is book that will be read
with keenest interest both north
and south, but especially in the
south, where many names among
the participant: in stirring events
are household words, and episodes
have all the absorbing interest OF
q family story. The southern gen
S.swoman of ante bellum days shar-
ed the scholastic education and out
of-door sports of her brothers. She
read Virgil and rode horseback.
Guardian Of an undevelosed, negro
race, she quickly recognized and as
sumed great responsibilities. She
was courageous, quick OF action spd
resouSceful in emergency. She pcs
sesssd fortitude and was acquainted
with leadership. Hence in the war
between the states, the southern
woman stood dauntless behind the
man behind the guns.
Publication Comnsissse
The committee upon the publica-
tion of the book is Mrs. Roy ".
Mckinney, Of. Kentucky, president
general Of the United Daughters CT
the Confeaeracy; Mrs. Charles Il.
Hyde, of Tennessee; Hiss Mary &.
Poppenheim, of South Carolina,
and Mrs. j. A. Rount-se cf Alaba-
ma. The foreword explains briefly
the issues upon which the war Of Sc
cession was fought and throughout
the book the editor appends sacn
notes as contribute to better under
standing OF, the.sRbject matter. e.a
Among esgseially interesting and
dramatic features Of the book are the
the wartime exp periences OF Eiiza-
beth WariagRhekett VINO had. inter-
views wish both President Lincoln
and Secretary Stanton; the pu5lica-
ton by, Rehecca Lloyd Nicholson, of
Baltimore, ;;.'of maryland, My Mary
land,' and its singing by Miss Cary
on the battlefield of Manassas. There
are excerpts from the diary of Ju-
d;th Brockenbrough Mcclure, the WAY
experiences of Mrs. Betsy Sullivan,
tMother of the Tennessee Regiment" /"
the capture and Imprisonment of Mrs
William Kerby who smuggled supplies
through the lines; the record of Mrs.
Betty Taylor Philips Of Kentucky,
tsMother of Orphan Brigade;" the
hospital service of that Joan of Arc
of the Confederacy, Capt. Sally
Tompkins, Confederate State Army,