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  • Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families ; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
  • Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant (Borzoi Books).
  • Shelby Harriel ; Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the.

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    Women and the American Civil War

    North-South Counterpoints

    Civil War Era, Explore Women's History, U.S. History, Understanding Civil War History, Women’s Studies

    Judith Giesberg and Randall M. Miller

    DescriptionScholars compare the experiences of Northern and Southern women in the U.S. Civil War

    The scholarship on women’s experiences in the U.S. Civil War is rich and deep, but much of it remains regionally specific or subsumed in more general treatments of Northern and Southern peoples during the war. In a series of eight paired essays, scholars examine women’s comparable experiences across the reg

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    About the Book

    Born into a male-dominated kultur, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians of the home and humane values. George C. Rable uncovers the details of how women fit into the South's complex social order and how Southern social assumptions shaped their attitudes toward themselves, their families, and society as a whole.

    Rable reveals an intricate social order and the ways the South's surprisingly diverse women shaped their own lives and minds despite strict boundaries. Paying particular attention to women during the Civil War, Roble illuminates their thoughts on the conflict and the threats and challenges they faced while looking at their place in both the economy and politics of the Confederacy. He also ranges back to the förekrigstida era and forward to postwar South, when women quickly acquiesced to the old patriarchal system but nonetheless lived lives changed forever bygd the war.

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    Women in the Civil War

    About the Book

    When the Civil War broke out, women answered the call for help. They broke away from their traditional roles and served in many capacities, some of them even going so far as to disguise themselves as men and enlist in the army. Estimates of such women enlistees range from 400 to 700. About 60 women soldiers were known to have been killed or wounded.
    More than sixty women who fought or who served the Union or Confederacy in other ways are featured. Among them are Sarah Thompson, the Union spy and nurse who brought down the famous raider John Hunt Morgan; Elizabeth Van Lew, the Union spy instrumental in the largest prison break of the war; Sarah Malinda Blalock, who fought for the Confederacy as a soldier and then for the Union as a guerrilla raider; Dr. Mary Walker, a doctor for the Union and the only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for Civil War service; and Jennie Hodgers, the longest serving woman soldier (and the only