Women's war : fighting and surviving the American Civil War
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- ISBN: 9780674987975
- ISBN: 9780674239920 (e-book)
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1 online resource (321 pages) - Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Enemy women and the laws of war -- The story of the black soldier's wife -- Reconstructing a life amidst the ruins. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Women's War : Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
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Women's War : Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
The Civil War is remembered as a war of brother against brother, with women standing innocently on the sidelines. But battlefield realities soon challenged this simplistic understanding of women's place in war. Stephanie McCurry shows that women were indispensable to the unfolding of the Civil War, as they have been--and continue to be--in all wars.