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Parthenia Antoinette Hague, A blockaded family: Life in southern Alabama during the war, Chapter 7: (search)
woven on our common house-loom; and large woolen coverlets as well as woolen and cotton flannels were made in the same manner. I often wonder how we were able so quickly to adapt ourselves to the great changes rendered necessary in our modes of life by the blockade. But be it remembered that the Southerners who were so reduced and so compelled to rely entirely upon their own resources belonged to the Anglo-Saxon race, a race which, despite all prating about race equality, has civilized America. The reflection to which memory gives rise when I recall war times in the South is this, that blood will tell. As to our cotton flannel, while it was rather heavy for every-day wear, it was just the thing for capes and cloaks, and was often made into blankets. The filling was spun rather coarse and very softly twisted. If it was to be used for capes or cloaks the raw cotton was dyed whatever color was made choice of before carding and spinning; if the flannel was to be used for blanke