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I. Cottage Hall 5
II. Old Times 11
III. Home Life 17
IV. Rumors of Our Civil War 24
V. My Daughter Laura’s Diary 37
VI. War Memories: How Becky Coleman Washed Hester Whitefield’s Face 48
VII. War Memories: The Story of Patsy’s Garden. 59
VIII. How Woman Came to the Rescue 69
IX. Miss Vine’s Dinner Party and its Abrupt Conclusion 83
X. Our Federal Friends and the Colored Brother 104
XI. Laura’s Death in the Epidemic of ’78 116
XII. A First Speech and Some Noted Women 124
XIII. Frances Willard 141
XIV. Sorrow and Sympathy 153
XV. Becky Speaks Up in Meeting in the Interests of Morality 164
XVI. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and the Blessed Colored People 171
XVII. Nervous Prostration and a Venerable Cousin 186
XVIII. Enter—as an Episode—Mrs. Columbiana Porterfield 197
XIX. The Southern Woman Becomes a “Clubable” Being 212
XX. The Best is Yet To Be 229


OLD TIMES IN DIXIE LAND

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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