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Author | : Angela Esco Elder |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2022-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469667754 |
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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—as well as songs, literary works, and material objects like mourning gowns—to explore white Confederate widows' stories, examining the records of their courtships, marriages, loves, and losses to understand their complicated relationship with the Confederate state. Elder shows how, in losing their husbands, many women acquired significant cultural capital, which positioned them as unlikely actors to gain political influence. Confederate officialdom championed a particular image of white widowhood—the young wife who selflessly transferred her monogamous love from her dead husband to the deathless cause for which he'd fought. But a closer look reveals that these women spent their new cultural capital with great shrewdness and variety. Not only were they aware of the social status gained in widowhood; they also used that status on their own terms, turning mourning into a highly politicized act amid the battle to establish the Confederacy's legitimacy. Death forced all Confederate widows to reconstruct their lives, but only some would choose to play a role in reconstructing the nation.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid Pensions |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Military pensions |
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Download Widows of Union Soldiers and Sailors Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Brandi Clay Brimmer |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2020-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1478012838 |
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In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the grassroots pension network in New Bern, North Carolina, through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines how the mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers struggled to claim pensions in the face of evidentiary obstacles and personal scrutiny. Brimmer exposes and examines the numerous attempts by the federal government to exclude black women from receiving the federal pensions that they had been promised. Her analyses illustrate the complexities of social policy and law administration and the interconnectedness of race, gender, and class formation. Expanding on previous analyses of pension records, Brimmer offers an interpretive framework of emancipation and the freedom narrative that places black women at the forefront of demands for black citizenship.
Author | : United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on invalid pensions |
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Download Increase of Pensions to Widows and Former Widows of Certain Soldiers, Sailors and Marines of the Civil War. Joint Hearing...on S. 1939...a Bill Granting Pensions...Jan. 18, 1928. (70-1). Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Military pensions |
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Download Increase of Pensions to Widows and Former Widows of Certain Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the of the Civil War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Theda Skocpol |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674043723 |
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It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled, and dependent citizens. During the late nineteenth century, competitive party politics in American democracy led to the rapid expansion of benefits for Union Civil War veterans and their families. Some Americans hoped to expand veterans' benefits into pensions for all of the needy elderly and social insurance for workingmen and their families. But such hopes went against the logic of political reform in the Progressive Era. Generous social spending faded along with the Civil War generation. Instead, the nation nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than forty states enacted social spending, labor regulations, and health education programs to assist American mothers and children. Remarkably, as Skocpol shows, many of these policies were enacted even before American women were granted the right to vote. Banned from electoral politics, they turned their energies to creating huge, nation-spanning federations of local women's clubs, which collaborated with reform-minded professional women to spur legislative action across the country. Blending original historical research with political analysis, Skocpol shows how governmental institutions, electoral rules, political parties, and earlier public policies combined to determine both the opportunities and the limits within which social policies were devised and changed by reformers and politically active social groups over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining afresh the institutional, cultural, and organizational forces that have shaped U.S. social policies in the past, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers challenges us to think in new ways about what might be possible in the American future.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid Pensions |
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Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1916 |
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Download Increase of Pensions for Widows of Soldiers of the Civil War. February 29, 1916. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and Ordered to be Printed Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Oklahoma Genealogical Society. Projects Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Cemetery Records |
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Download Union Veterans, Their Widows and U.S. Soldiers, Index-1890 Census ; Union Soldiers' Home and Cemetery Records Index (Civil War, Wars with Spain and Mexico, Army Nurses, and National Guard) Oklahoma Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An index to the 1890 United States Census of Union veterans and their widows in Oklahom and Indian Territories (including old Greer County) and soldiers stationed at military installations in the territories (section I); also, an index to records from the Oklahoma Union Soldiers' Home including Civil War veterans and their dependents, veterans of wars with Spain and Mexico, Army nurses, and certain members of the National Guard of Oklahoma; and the Union Soldiers' Cemetery Record (Section II).
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid Pensions |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Military pensions |
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Download Original and Increase of Pensions to Widows and Former Widows of Certain Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the Civil War, Also Increase to Certain Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines Now on the Pension Roll Under the Provisions of the Maimed Veterans' Act of February 11, 1927 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : M. Jane Johansson |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781557288417 |
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This collection of letters written between Theophilus and Harriet Perry during the Civil War provides an intimate, firsthand account of the effect of the war on one young couple. Perry was an officer with the 28th Texas Cavalry, a unit that campaigned in Arkansas and Louisiana as part of the division known as ""Walker's Greyhounds."" His letters describe his service in a highly literate style that is unusual for Confederate accounts. He documents a number of important events, including his experiences as a detached officer in Arkansas in the winter of 1862-63, the attempt to relieve the siege of Vicksburg, mutiny in his regiment, and the Red River campaign, just before he was killed in the battle of Pleasant Hill. Harriet's writings allow the reader to witness the everyday life of an upper-class woman enduring home front deprivations, facing the hardships and fears of childbearing and childrearing alone, and coping with other challenges resulting from her husband's absence.