Women of the Civil War South : personal accounts from diaries, letters and postwar reminiscences / compiled by Marilyn Mayer Culpepper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Confederate States of America--Biography.

Women.

Women--United States--Biography.

Social conditions.

United States.

Women--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.

History.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Confederate States of America--Biography.

Confederate States of America.

Confederate States of America--Social conditions--Sources.

Genre:

Biographies.

Personal narratives -- Confederate.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

vii, 267 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2004]

Summary:

Presented here are excerpts from diaries and letters written by Southern women from different walks of life, and areas of the country. Mary White, a fifteen-year-old girl, attempted to get through the blockade in Wilmington, North Carolina; Nancy Jones lived in fear amid the violence that rocked Missouri and saw her close friends and family murdered and her young son taken prisoner by the Yankees; Sarah Dandridge Duval and her family were refugees living near Richmond, Virginia. The book includes personal reminiscences from Union and Confederate women living in Winchester, Virginia, a town that reportedly changed hands 76 times during the war, and the reactions of Southern women to the surrender at Appomattox.

Contents:

Troubled waters

running the blockade

Poverty and pride

A precarious existence

"Turmoil, war and wretchedness"

Life in a divided city

perspectives from Winchester, Virginia

Death of a cause.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index.

ISBN:

0786416955

OCLC:

52819836