The women's fight the Civil War's battles for home, freedom, and nation
"Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war"--The military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery. In this broadly conceived book, Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women's roles an...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
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| Summary: | "Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war"--The military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery. In this broadly conceived book, Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War--North and South, white and black, slave and free--showing how women were essentially and fully engaged in all three arenas."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-356) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781469653631 146965363X 9781469653648 1469653648 |
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