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The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], The industry of the women of the South. (search)
ise of how little they know of the hardships which their sex are forced to under go to sustain and support their families while their husbands and brothers are absent fighting the battles of our country. On the small farms throughout this section all is life, activity, and industry. Many a woman who never before held a plow is now seen in the cornfield — many a young girl who would have blushed at the thought before of handling a plow line, now naturally and unconsciously cries "gee up" to Dobbin, to the silvery tones of which the good brute readily responds, as if a pleasure to comply with so gentle a command. Many a Rath, as of old, is seen to day, binding and gleaning in the wheat fields; but, alas! no Boaz is there to console or to comfort. The picture of the rural solder's home is at this time but a picture of primitive life. Throughout the country, at every farm — house and cottage, the regular sound of the loom, as the shuttle flies to and fro, with the whirl of the spinni