Women in the Civil War

Name: Women in the Civil War
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
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By Massey, Mary Elizabeth

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The Civil War wrought cataclysmic changes in the lives of American Women on both sides of the conflict. Women in the Civil War demonstrates their enterprise, fortitude, and fierceness. In this revealing social history, Massey focuses on many famous women, including nurses Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, and Mother Bickerdyke; spies Pauline Cushman and Belle Boyd; writers Louisa May Alcott, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Chestnut; pamphleteer and military strategist Anna Ella Carroll; black abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth; feminists Susan B. Anthony and Jane Grey Swisshelm; and political wives Varina Davis and Mary Todd Lincoln. The anonymous women who maintained farms and plantations are described, as are camp followers, businesswomen, entertainers, activists, and socialites in Charleston and Washington.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 401
Release Date:: 1994-04-01
Publication Date:: 1994-04-01
Publisher:: University of Nebraska Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0803282133
ISBN13:: 9780803282131
Weight:: 581 g
Height:: 151 cm
Width:: 230 cm
Thickness:: 26 cm

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