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 w...
| Main Author: | Glymph, Thavolia, 1951- (Author) |
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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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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Southern Women
- Home and War: "Domestic Sanctuaries" on the Run
- Poor White Women in the Confederacy: "Enemies" to Their Country
- Enslaved Women: Making War on Antislavery Ground
- Part II. Northern Women
- Am I a Soldier of the Cross? Northern Women's Fight and the Legacy of Slavery
- Northern White Women and the "Garden of Eden"
- Part III. The Hard Hand of War
- Under the Restless Wings of an Army: Fallen Angels
- Black Women Refugees: Making Freedom in Union Lines.