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Intimate strategies of the Civil War : military commanders and their wives / edited by Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confederate States of America. Army--Biography.
- Confederate States of America.
- United States. Army--Biography.
- United States.
- Generals' spouses--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Generals' spouses.
- Married people--United States--Biography.
- Married people.
- Married people--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Generals' spouses--United States--Biography.
- Generals--United States--Biography.
- Generals.
- Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The wives of Civil war commanders had widely divergent roles in their marriages before, during, and after the war - some wives changed their roles as their husbands gained prominence. This study brings the field of Women's Studies to Civil War history to show that their were many cultural battles simultaneously occurring on the home front.
- Contents:
- Contents; Editors' Introduction; ONE: The Marriage of Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis: A Portrait of the President and the First Lady of the Confederacy; TWO: The Lee Marriage; THREE: "A Sweet Solace to My Lonely Heart": "Stonewall" and Mary Anna Jackson and the Civil War; FOUR: "Cupid Does Not Readily Give Way to Mars": The Marriage of LaSalle Corbell and George E. Pickett; FIVE: "All Say They Are under Petticoat Government": Lizinka Campbell Brown and Richard S. Ewell; SIX: The Marriage of Amelia Gayle and Josiah Gorgas; SEVEN: A Marriage Tested by War: Ulysses and Julia Grant
- EIGHT: General and Mrs.William T. Sherman, a Contentious UnionNINE: The Reconstruction of ""Home": The Civil War and the Marriage of Lawrence and Fannie Chamberlain; TEN: The Civil War Partnership of Elizabeth and George A. Custer; ELEVEN: Permutations of a Marriage: John Charles and Jessie Benton Frémont's Civil War Alliance; TWELVE: "A Good Wife, the Best Friend in the World": The Marriage of Elizabeth Blair and S. Phillips Lee; Notes; Authors' Biographies
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028335-1
- 0-19-533085-4
- 1-280-45418-0
- 0-19-530191-9
- 0-19-802749-4
- 1-60256-207-5
- OCLC:
- 559917755
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