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Love & duty : Confederate widows and the emotional politics of loss / Angela Esco Elder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elder, Angela Esco, author.
- Series:
- Civil War America.
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- Civil War America
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Widows--Confederate States of America--History.
- Widows.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In 'Love and Duty', Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials to explore white Confederate widows' stories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 26, 2023).
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- ISBN:
- 9798890856883
- 9798890856890
- 9781469667744
- 1469667746
- 9781469667751
- 1469667754
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