Author : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400095780
Civil War Wives by Carol Berkin Pdf
In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding women's experiences and voices to their male counterparts.