Confederate Heroines
Author | : Thomas P. Lowry |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807129909 |
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Author | : Thomas P. Lowry |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807129909 |
Author | : Katharine Macbeth Jones |
Publisher | : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : |
Extracts from the letters, diaries, and other writings of Confederate women.
Author | : John Levi Underwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pamela D. Toler |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2016-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316392057 |
A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street. Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads of the Civil War, were nurses who gave their time freely and willingly to save lives and aid the wounded. These women saw casualties on a scale Americans had never seen before, and medicine was at a turning point. Heroines of Mercy Street follows the lives of women like Dorothea Dix, Mary Phinney, Anne Reading, and more before, during, and after their epic struggle in Alexandria and reveals their personal contributions to this astounding period in the advancement of medicine.
Author | : Mauriel Phillips Joslyn |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2004-05-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781455602841 |
True stories of Southern women in the Civil War for “any reader with an interest in women’s history . . . An eye-opening experience.” —ForeWord The women featured in this anthology refute the common belief that Southern women were delicate and fragile. These Confederate women started relief organizations and militia companies, learned how to fire a musket, and even worked as spies. One courageous woman disguised herself as a male officer and recruited troops from around the South. Confederate Women includes ten essays about the crucial role Southern women played during and after the Civil War, believing that the war was “certainly ours as well as that of the men.” Excerpts from correspondence with their sons, fathers, husbands, and other women shed light on their unique position in America’s past. Often women are left out of history books, only to fade into the shadows of time. Thanks to Mauriel Phillips Joslyn and her contributing authors, these women will remain a part of history, never to be forgotten. “An affecting reminder that Southern women faced the challenges of the wartime era with courage and determination.” —Civil War News Previously published as Valor and Lace: The Roles of Confederate Women 1861–1865
Author | : Katharine M Jones |
Publisher | : Andesite Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2015-08-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781297614804 |
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Author | : William Galbraith |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Memphis (Tenn.) |
ISBN | : 9781617035692 |
Author | : Jane E. Schultz |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2005-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807864153 |
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.
Author | : Katharine Macbeth Jones |
Publisher | : Mockingbird Bks. |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : 9780891760320 |
Author | : Nina Silber |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674043626 |
Daughters of the Union casts a spotlight on some of the most overlooked and least understood participants in the American Civil War: the women of the North. Unlike their Confederate counterparts, who were often caught in the midst of the conflict, most Northern women remained far from the dangers of battle. Nonetheless, they enlisted in the Union cause on their home ground, and the experience transformed their lives. Nina Silber traces the emergence of a new sense of self and citizenship among the women left behind by Union soldiers. She offers a complex account, bolstered by women's own words from diaries and letters, of the changes in activity and attitude wrought by the war. Women became wage-earners, participants in partisan politics, and active contributors to the war effort. But even as their political and civic identities expanded, they were expected to subordinate themselves to male-dominated government and military bureaucracies. Silber's arresting tale fills an important gap in women's history. She shows the women of the North--many for the first time--discovering their patriotism as well as their ability to confront new economic and political challenges, even as they encountered the obstacles of wartime rule. The Civil War required many women to act with greater independence in running their households and in expressing their political views. It brought women more firmly into the civic sphere and ultimately gave them new public roles, which would prove crucial starting points for the late-nineteenth-century feminist struggle for social and political equality.