Women in the Civil War - Softcover

Massey, Mary Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803282133 ISBN 13: 9780803282131

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0803282133
• ISBN 13: 9780803282131
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 401