Excerpt from The Women of the Confederacy: In Which Is Presented the Heroism of the Women of the Confederacy With Accounts of Their Trials During the War and the Period of Reconstruction, With Their Ultimate Triumph Over Adversity, Their Motives and Their Achievements as Told by Writers and Orator The Women of the Confederacy, including Mr. Um derwood's tribute in the Symposium to their memory, is by far the most thrilling and meritorious part Of it. Into this the author has put his best material, his deepest emotions, his finest sentiments, and his most eloquent words. To the conduct Of Southern women in that um precedented ordeal, history furnishes no parallel. Through many generations to Come it will be the favorite theme Of the poets and orators. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.