![]() Fry proudly documents the crumbs of information she could find. ![]() “The War Work of the Women of Dallas County” written by a woman clearly sympathetic to the Confederate cause, offers a great deal of insight into the wartime lives of the women of Dallas County, Alabama. ![]() ![]() Other entries in her diary document events that do trouble her seem trivial in comparison to the larger conflict happening so close to her family. There are other works from the era presenting a different point of view. There are many moments throughout the book where a woman of the modern world might have shrunk away in fear, but she does not express any discomfort at all. Those entries betray a certain naivety in her. “A Confederate Lady Comes of Age” is a book of diary entries written by Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward. Hague’s book shows a rose-colored view of the Southern states and an unwillingness to give up on the life she once had before the war. Hague describes the way food was grown and distributed, how shoes were made, and textiles woven into clothing. In Parthenia Antoinette Hague’s book “A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War” there is an entire chapter devoted to the creative ways in which Confederate citizens kept the economy and their communities alive. ![]()
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