Captain Sally Tompkins 124 The Angel of the Hospital 125 III THEIR TRIALS 127 Old Maids 127 A Mother's Letter 129 Tom and his Young Master 130 "I Knew You Would Come" 131 Letters from the Poor at Home 132 Life in Richmond During the War 133 The Women of New Orleans 140 "Incorrigible Little Devil" 141 The Battle of the Handkerchiefs 142 The Women of New Orleans and Vicksburg Prisoners 144 "It Don't Trouble Me" 147 Savage War in the Valley 147 Mrs. Robert Turner, Woodstock, Va. 148 High Price of Needles And Thread 149 Despair at Home--Heroism at the Front 151 The Old Drake's Territory 152 The Refugee in Richmond 154 Desolations of War 155 Death of a Soldier 156 Mrs. Henrietta E. Lee's Letter To General Hunter 159 Sherman's Bummers 161 Reminiscences of the War Times--a Letter 163 Aunt Myra and the Hoe-cake 164 "The Corn Woman" 166 General Atkins at Chapel Hill 167 Two Specimen Cases of Desertion 167 Sherman in South Carolina 171 Old North State's Trials 173 Sherman in North Carolina 175 Mrs. Vance's Trunk--General Palmer's Gallantry 177 The Eventful Third of April 178 The Federals Enter Richmond 181 Somebody's Darling 183 IV THEIR PLUCK 185 Female Recruiting Officers 185 Mrs. Susan Roy Carter 186 J. L. M. Curry's Women Constituents 191 Nora McCarthy 192 Women in the Battle of Gainesville, Florida 194