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

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"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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
Main Author: Glymph, Thavolia, 1951- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
Subjects:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, Female.
Women and war > United States > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Military participation > Female.
Social aspects.
Women.
Women and war.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Variant Title:
Civil War's battles for home freedom, and nation
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.