Unvanquished: Confederate Women in the Civil War

Food prices are crazy! But we can only imagine how Civil War women coped with high inflation and food shortages. The Confederate states exp...

As the Civil War continued, food became scarce.   High inflation in the Confederacy made staples unaffordable for many. Soldiers and...

CHRISTMAS ON THE HOMEFRONT For women on the home front, Christmas during the Civil War was a subdued and often difficult day. For children, ...

  Brave southern women tell how they survived the desperate last days of the Confederacy in eyewitness accounts.  They outwitted the plund...

Starvation loomed as a stark possibility for many Southern women. Desperate women, trying to feed hungry children resorted to robbery.   ...

Ex Slave Finds Buried Treasure Many plantation owners buried their jewels, silver, and gold coins to keep it out of the hands of Yankee mara...

Mary Ann Harris Gay describes the family reunion with her returning Confederate soldier brother: "As we stood upon the plat...