Excerpt from From Dixie
The ten years following immediately on the close Of the civil war. Was a bitter bad time in the South, and particularly in Vir ginia. Her tobacco trade was gone, her farms had been turned into battle-fields; all the debts predicated on negro property had come on the land, and there was no staple, like cotton, to fall back on; all this added to the horrors Of reconstruction. To the women those ten years were a nightmare Of mis fortune and effort. They were bound to new conditions, like victims to a Wheel, and broken by them. Life was disrupted, even paralyzed, and homes which had been in families since the settlement Of the country passed into other hands.
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