Parthenia Antoinette Hague

Born in Georgia in 1838, Parthenia Antoinette Hague was educated at Hamilton Female College and later taught on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. That experience shaped the work she is remembered for: a personal account of life in the South during the Civil War.

Her best-known book, A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War, was published in 1888. Written from memory and observation, it focuses less on battlefields than on the daily realities of wartime life—food, clothing, work, fear, improvisation, and the rhythms of a household trying to endure.

Hague's writing remains of interest because it preserves a detailed civilian perspective from the Confederate South. Reliable catalog and archival records confirm her 1838 birth year and the publication history of her book, but a suitable verified portrait was not available from the sources I could confirm.