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

by Mary Elizabeth Massey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872498778
• ISBN13: 9780872498778
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"