THE WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACY 

by Francis Butler Simkins and James Welch Patton

This book "endeavors to evaluate the part played by the women of south in the inauguration of the Confederate War; their share in sustaining the Confederate armies and in keeping alive the economic life of a war torn and blockaded country" and much more. Simkins was a long time history professor at the State Teachers College, now Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. A first edition (1936) from Garrett and Massie of Richmond, Virginia. Inscribed, signed and dated by Simkins in 1937.

Hardcover, 6" x 9", 306 pages, illustrated