A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War

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Parthenia Vardaman (later Hague) experienced the Civil War at the same time as employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation close to Eufaula, Alabama. A Blockaded Family recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations right through a blockade imposed at the South. The creator shows that the Yankees had no monopoly on ingenuity when survival depended upon self-sufficiency. She describes in detail the changes forced by war on farming methods, the day by day imperatives of finding enough to eat and making do with substitutes, the manufacture of brogues and garments at the plantation. A Blockaded Family is memorable for its glimpses of wartime domestic life and of the tactics anxious citizens coped because the northern army closed in.

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