Preorder due to ship November/December 2009. Barbara Brackmans Civil War Homefront recalls the Southern woman's life of shortage and substitutions in the rural Confederacy. The plaids are reminders of the home-dyed, homespun yarns plantation weavers produced. The prints echo Yankee cottons that a blockade runner might bring into Richmond, Galveston and Mobile. A time when women could only dream of fashion.