As the weather cooled in Alabama in the fall of 1864, the Confederacy continued to crumble. Union Gen. William T. Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia, and marched through the Deep South as Grant and Lee faced off in what would turn out to be a months-long siege at Petersburg, Virginia. Meanwhile, in Alabama, white women continued to fill the voids left by their husbands and fathers. Since the men had left home in 1861, many women had been both caring for their children and tending crops of their family farms. Over the course of the war, the blockade not only made food scarce but sent inflation skyward. But despite starvation, many Alabama women remained on their land and supported the Confederacy.
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