The women's fight : the Civil War's battles for home, freedom, and nation

Glymph, Thavolia 1951- (author.).

Summary: "Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war"--the military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery. In this broadly conceived book, Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War--North and South, white and black, slave and free--showing how women were essentially and fully engaged in all three arenas."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781469653631
ISBN: 146965363X
ISBN: 9781469653648
ISBN: 1469653648
ISBN: 9781469653655
Physical Description: print
379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-356) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I. Southern Women -- Home and War: "Domestic Sanctuaries" on the Run -- Poor White Women in the Confederacy: "Enemies" to Their Country -- Enslaved Women: Making War on Antislavery Ground -- Part II. Northern Women -- Am I a Soldier of the Cross? Northern Women's Fight and the Legacy of Slavery -- Northern White Women and the "Garden of Eden" -- Part III. The Hard Hand of War -- Under the Restless Wings of an Army: The "Female Humanity" -- Black Women Refugees: Making Freedom in Union Lines.