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...
The Civil War wrought cataclysmic changes in the lives of American Women on both sides of the conflict. Women in the Civil War demonstrates the...
This title tells the story of Southern refugees during the American Civil War. It includes tales of people scrambling for trains or making river crossings. It examines the psychological effect of the war on the homeless, the humour they found in their difficulties and legislation concerning them.
This title tells the story of Southern refugees during the American Civil War. It includes tales of people scrambling for trains or making river cross...
