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Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront

Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront

Massey, Mary Elizabeth
Bellows, Barbara L.

Paperback

Series: Southern Classics

Investing & FinanceCivil War Period (1850-1877)General Military History

ISBN10: 0872498778
ISBN13: 9780872498778
Publisher: Univ Of South Carolina Pr
Published: Mar 1 1993
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.03 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

First published by the University of South Carolina in 1952, Ersatz in the Confederacy remains the definitive study of the South's desperate struggle to overcome critical shortages of food, medicine, clothing, household goods, farming supplies, and tools during the Civil War.

Mary Elizabeth Massey's seminal work carefully documents the ingenuity of the Confederates as they coped with shortages of manufactured goods and essential commodities--including grain, coffee, sugar, and butter--that previously had been imported from the northern states or from England. Creative Southerners substituted sawdust for soap, pigs' tails and ears for Christmas tree ornaments, leaves for mattress stuffing, okra seeds for coffee beans, and gourds for cups. Women made clothing from scraps of material, blankets from carpets, shoes from leather saddles and furniture, and battle flags from wedding dresses.

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