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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCurry, Stephanie (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women.
Spies > Confederate States of America.
Women spies > Confederate States of America.
Enslaved women > United States > History > 19th century.
Fugitive slaves > United States > History > 19th century.
Civil-military relations > United States > History > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Georgia.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
Civil-military relations.
Fugitive slaves.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Spies.
Women.
Women spies.
Georgia.
United States.
United States > Confederate States of America.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 297 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Enemy women and the laws of war
  • The story of the black soldier's wife
  • Reconstructing a life amidst the ruins.