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Author : Mary Elizabeth Massey
Release : 1994-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 131/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women in the Civil War by : Mary Elizabeth Massey
Download or read book Women in the Civil War written by Mary Elizabeth Massey. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given by the Madeley Estate.
Author : Webb Garrison
Release : 1999-09-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 549/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Amazing Women of the Civil War by : Webb Garrison
Download or read book Amazing Women of the Civil War written by Webb Garrison. This book was released on 1999-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also one in which women demonstrated heroic deeds, selfless acts, and courage beyond measure. Women mobilized soup kitchens and relief societies. Women cared for wounded soldiers. Women were effective spies. And it is estimated that 300 women fought on the battlefields, usually disguised as men. The most fascinating Civil War women include: Harriet Tubman, a former slave, who led hundreds of fellow slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad Four hundred women who were seized in Roswell, Georgia, deported to Indiana, and vanished without a trace Belle Boyd, the "Siren of the Shenandoah," who at the age of seventeen killed a Union soldier "Crazy" Elizabeth Van Lew, who deliberately fostered the impression that she was eccentric so that she could be an effective spy for the North "The poor fellow sprang from my hands and fell back quivering in the agonies of death. A bullet had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through my sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder." ?Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross "We were all amused and disgusted at the sight of a thing that nothing but the debased and depraved Yankee nation could produce. [A woman] was dressed in the full uniform of a Federal surgeon. She was not good looking, and of course had tongue enough for a regiment of men." ?Captain Benedict J. Semmes, describing Mary Walker, M.D.
Author : Lucia Raatma
Release : 2006
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 700/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Great Women of the Civil War by : Lucia Raatma
Download or read book Great Women of the Civil War written by Lucia Raatma. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the important roles women held during the Civil War including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, and Elizabeth Van Lew.
Author : Stephanie McCurry
Release : 2021-03
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 403/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women's War by : Stephanie McCurry
Download or read book Women's War written by Stephanie McCurry. This book was released on 2021-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women." --David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass "Readers expecting hoop-skirted ladies soothing fevered soldiers' brows will not find them here...It explodes the fiction that men fight wars while women idle on the sidelines." --Washington Post "As McCurry points out in this gem of a book, many historians who view the American Civil War as a 'people's war' nevertheless neglect the actions of half the people." --James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom "In this brilliant exposition of the politics of the seemingly personal, McCurry illuminates previously unrecognized dimensions of the war's elemental impact." --Drew Gilpin Faust, author of This Republic of Suffering The idea that women are outside of war is a powerful myth in western culture, one that shaped the Civil War and still determines how we write about it today. Through three dramatic stories that span the course of the war, this groundbreaking reconsideration invites us to see America's bloodiest conflict for what it was: not just a brothers' war but a women's war. When Union soldiers faced the unexpected threat of female partisans, saboteurs, and spies, long held assumptions about the innocence of enemy women were suddenly thrown into question. Stephanie McCurry shows how the case of Clara Judd, imprisoned for treason, transformed the writing of Lieber's Code, leading to lasting changes in the laws of war. Black women's fight for freedom had no place in the Union military's emancipation plans. Facing a massive problem of governance as former slaves fled to their ranks, officers re-classified black women as "soldiers' wives"--whether or not they were married--placing new obstacles on their path to freedom. Finally, Women's War offers a new perspective on the epic human drama of Reconstruction through the story of one slaveholding woman, Gertrude Thomas, whose losses went well beyond the material to intimate matters of family, love, and belonging. Thomas's response mixed grief with rage, recasting white supremacy in new, still relevant, terms.
Author : Kirsten Schefelton
Release : 2014-07-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 190/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Great Women of the Civil War by : Kirsten Schefelton
Download or read book Great Women of the Civil War written by Kirsten Schefelton. This book was released on 2014-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes key women involved in the American Civil War, including workers of the Underground Railroad, spies, abolitionists, and battlefield nurses"--
