Women's war : fighting and surviving the American Civil War / Stephanie McCurry.

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,...

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Main Author: McCurry, Stephanie (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Physical Description:xii, 297 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
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