| Women in the Civil War Contributor(s): Massey, Mary Elizabeth (Author), Berlin, Jean V. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0803282133 ISBN-13: 9780803282131 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1994 Annotation: The Civil War wrought cataclysmic changes in the lives of American women of 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - General - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: 973.715 |
| LCCN: 93045580 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 5.94" W x 9.04" (1.28 lbs) 401 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Mary Elizabeth Massey also wrote Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront. Introducing this Bison Books edition is Jean V. Berlin. She is an assistant editor of the correspondence of William T. Sherman. |