Trials and triumphs : women of the American Civil War / Marilyn Mayer Culpepper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--History--19th century.

Women.

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Trials and Triumphs, Marilyn Mayer Culpepper provides incomparable insights into women's lives during America's Civil War era. Her respect for these nineteenth-century women and their experiences, as well as her engaging and intimate style, enable Culpepper to transport readers into a tumultuous time of death, destruction, and privation -- into a world turned upside down, an environment that seemed as strange to contemporaries as it does in our own time. Culpepper has uncovered forgotten images of America's bloodiest conflict contained in the diaries and corre

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. A Nation Torn Asunder; 2. Slaves, Soldiers, Free People; 3. Anxiety-The Irrepressible Companion; 4. The Refugee Experience; 5. The Ravages of War; 6. The Battle Against Privation; 7. "Much to Do"-Part I; 8. "Much to Do"-Part II; 9. The Florence Nightingales of the Civil War; 10. Peace at Last; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-87013-906-1

0-585-18824-6

OCLC:

555783815