A Woman's War

by Campbell, Edward D. C.; Cashin, Joan E.; Coski, John M.; Faust, Drew Gilpin; Feely, Amy R.; Glymph, Thavolia

• ISBN13: 9780813917399
• ISBN10: 0813917395
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

Enhanced by excerpts from primary documents as well as numerous illustrations, this collection of essays by some of the country's most prominent Civil War historians intends to move women to the center stage of Civil War history. Topics range from the experiences of female slave contrabandists, to the lives of rural refugee women, to the effects of the postwar era on African-American women, to the Civil War's legacy in women's suffrage movements.

Table of Contents

A CENTENNIAL NOTE	vii	(2)
FOREWORD	ix	(4)
Suzanne Lebsock
PREFACE	xiii
A WOMAN'S WAR Southern Women in the Civil War	1	(28)
Drew Gilpin Faust
Thavolia Glymph
George C. Rable
INTO THE TRACKLESS WILDERNESS The Refugee Experience in the Civil War	29	(26)
Joan E. Cashin
"THIS SPECIES OF PROPERTY" Female Slave Contrabands in the Civil War	55	(18)
Thavolia Glymph
VOICES FROM THE TEMPEST Southern Women's Wartime Experiences	73	(58)
Kym S. Rice
Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr.
A MONUMENT TO SOUTHERN WOMANHOOD The Founding Generation of the Confederate Museum	131	(34)
John M. Coski
Amy R. Feely
DIVIDED LEGACY The Civil War, Tradition, and "the Woman Question," 1870-1920	165	(27)
Marjorie Spruill Wheeler
NOTES	192	(27)
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING	219	(18)
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH	237	(11)
INDEX	248	(13)
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	261	(2)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	263