Women's war : fighting and surviving the American Civil War / Stephanie McCurry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCurry, Stephanie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spies--Confederate States of America.

Spies.

Women spies--Confederate States of America.

Women spies.

Enslaved women--United States--History--19th century.

Enslaved women.

Fugitive slaves--United States--History--19th century.

Fugitive slaves.

Civil-military relations--United States--History--19th century.

Civil-military relations.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Georgia.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

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

United States.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Civil War is remembered as a war of brother against brother, with women standing innocently on the sidelines. But battlefield realities soon challenged this simplistic understanding of women's place in war. Stephanie McCurry shows that women were indispensable to the unfolding of the Civil War, as they have been-and continue to be-in all wars.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Prologue

1. Enemy Women and the Laws of War

2. The Story of the Black Soldier's Wife

3. Reconstructing a Life amid the Ruins

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780674239937

0674239938

9780674239920 (electronic book)

067423992X

OCLC:

1091899688