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Confederate women / [compiled] by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn.

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Van Pelt Library E628 .V35 2004
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Joslyn, Mauriel, 1955-
Standardized Title:
Valor and lace.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women.
History.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
United States.
Women--Confederate States of America--History.
Confederate States of America--History.
Confederate States of America.
Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
Social aspects.
Physical Description:
174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub. Co., 2004.
Summary:
This anthology of ten historical and biographical essays focuses on women's roles during the Civil War. Using archival research and, often, excerpts from real women's own letters and diaries, these essays reveal true stories of heroism. Each chapter focuses on a different woman and the part she played in the conflict, from Charlotte S. Branch, whose three sons went off to fight; to Loreta Janeta Velazquez, who was a soldier herself; to Ella K. Newsom Trader, who served as a nurse.
Contents:
The mother : Charlotte S. Branch, "the mother of the Oglethorpe light infantry" / Mauriel Phillips Joslyn
The homefront : for our boys-the ladies' aid socities / Julieanna Williams
The defenders : the Nancy Hearts / Anne J. Bailey
The soldier : Loreta Janeta Velaquez alias Lt. Harry T. Buford / Norma Jean Perkins
The betrothed : Susan Tarleton of Mobile / Mauriel Phillips Joslyn
The nurse : Ella K. Newsom Trader, "the Florence Nightingale of the Southern army" / Barbara Duffey
The prisoner : the incarceration of Mrs. Mary M. Stockton Terry / Jeanne M. Christie
The poetess : Margaret Junkin Preston of Lexington, Virginia / William H. Baria
The caretaker of the dead : Mary Amarinthia Yates Snowden of Charleston, SC / June Murray Wells
Servants of God and man : the Sisters of Mercy / James A Buttimer.
Notes:
"First published by Southern Heritage Press as Valor and Lace : the roles of Confederate women 1861-1865, 1996"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171).
ISBN:
1589801865
OCLC:
52970166

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