A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War
Parthenia Antoinette Hague
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, March 10, 2018)
Excerpt from A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil WarON a glorious sunshiny morning in the early summer of I86I I was on my way to the school-house on the plantation of a gentleman who lived near Eufaula, Ala bama, and in whose service I remained during the period of the war.As I was nearing the little school-room on a rising knoll, all shaded with great oaks and sentineled with tall pines, I heard skipping feet behind me, and one of my scholars exclaiming, Here is a letter for you, Miss A l It has just been brought from the office by Ed -the negro boy who was sent every morning for the mail.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.