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WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR
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Mary Elizabeth Massey, Jean V. Berlin |
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ISBN 10: |
0803282133 |
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9780803282131 |
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 April, 1994 |
Pages: |
401 |
Description: |
The Civil War wrought cataclysmic changes in the lives of American Women on both sides of the conflict. This book demonstrates their enterprise, fortitude, and fierceness. It focuses on many famous women, including Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Mother Bickerdyke, Pauline Cushman, Belle Boyd, Louisa May Alcott, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Chestnut. |
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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. |
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University of Nebraska Press |
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