Confederate Women

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838525

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Confederate Women and Yankee Men by Drew Gilpin Faust Pdf

When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Gilpin Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain. In this UNC Press Short, excerpted from Mother's of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, Drew Gilpin Faust explores the legendary hostility of Confederate women toward Yankee soldiers. From daily acts of belligerence to murder and espionage, these women struggled not only with the Yankee enemy in their midst but with the genteel ideal of white womanhood that was at odds with their wartime acts of resistance. UNC Press Civil War Shorts excerpt compelling, shorter narratives from selected best-selling books published by the University of North Carolina Press and present them as engaging, quick reads. Produced exclusively in ebook format, these shorts present essential concepts, defining moments, and concise introductions to topics. They are intended to stir the imagination and encourage further exploration of the original publications from which these works are drawn.

Author : Thomas P. Lowry
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807129906

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Confederate Heroines by Thomas P. Lowry Pdf

Author : Bell Irvin Wiley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1032153

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Confederate Women by Bell Irvin Wiley Pdf

Author : Katharine M. Jones
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1376153130

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Heroines of Dixie Confederate Women Tell Their Story of the War by Katharine M. Jones Pdf

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Author : Mauriel Phillips Joslyn
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1455602841

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Confederate Women by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn Pdf

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 : J. L. Underwood
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664623201

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The Women of the Confederacy by J. L. Underwood Pdf

This book is about the personal stories of the women who lived through the American Civil War as Confederates in America's southern states. There are many stories of the heroism of the men who fought in this war, but these women were, in their way, just as heroic. They suffered loss and destruction of their ways of life, and like many women in other wars worldwide since, overcame great hardships.

Author : United Confederate Veterans. Arkansas Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Arkansas
ISBN : WISC:89067518225

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Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War by United Confederate Veterans. Arkansas Division Pdf

Author : Kristen Brill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317425267

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Elite Confederate Women in the American Civil War by Kristen Brill Pdf

Elite Confederate Women in the American Civil War is a wide-ranging primary source collection that offers a compelling selection of upper-class, white Confederate women’s voices from archives across the South. From the prison diary of Mary Terry to Elizabeth Baker Crozier’s eyewitness account of the siege of Knoxville, this volume introduces lesser-known voices of the war to show the interconnections between the home front and the front lines, and how the war shaped the lives of women and households across the South. This collection challenges students to engage with the role of first-person narratives in history and to reconsider the roles of southern women in the Civil War. Exploring the themes of slavery, nationalism, secession and occupation, these narratives offer new ways to think about traditional issues in Civil War history and, more broadly, show the ways in which studies of women and gender can enrich studies of cultures of war. This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students of both the American Civil War and women’s history.

Author : Bell Irvin Wiley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Women
ISBN : OCLC:351657928

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Confederate Women by Bell Irvin Wiley Pdf

Author : George C. Rable
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252054440

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Civil Wars by George C. Rable Pdf

Born into a male-dominated society, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians of the home and humane values. George C. Rable uncovers the details of how women fit into the South's complex social order and how Southern social assumptions shaped their attitudes toward themselves, their families, and society as a whole. He reveals a bafflingly intricate social order and the ways the South's surprisingly diverse women shaped their own lives and minds despite strict boundaries. Paying particular attention to women during the Civil War, Roble illuminates their thoughts on the conflict and the threats and challenges they faced and looks at their place in both the economy and politics of the Confederacy. He also ranges back to the antebellum era and forward to postwar South, when women quickly acquiesced to the old patriarchal system but nonetheless lived lives changed forever by the war.

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807855731

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Mothers of Invention by Drew Gilpin Faust Pdf

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

Author : Karen Zeinert
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761302123

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Those Courageous Women of the Civil War by Karen Zeinert Pdf

Examines the important contributions of various women, Northern, Southern, and slave, to the American Civil War, on the battlefield, in print, on the home front, and in other areas where they challenged traditional female roles.

Author : The United Confederate Veterans
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War by The United Confederate Veterans Pdf

Most of the Union soldiers who experienced the wrath of Southern women during the American Civil War came away feeling that fighting the Southern men was a more appealing proposition. General William Tecumseh Sherman said, “You women are the toughest set I ever knew. The men would have given up long ago but for you. I believe you would keep this war up for thirty years." The great value of the present volume is that it was not written for an audience outside the unreconstructed south. Even after forty years, the embers of bitterness and defense of the "Lost Cause" echo in these uncensored pages. Yet it's not all vitriol and horror. Included are stories of great humor and a remembrance of Ulysses S. Grant's kindness to a wounded rebel son. These are the women who lived through the pain and suffering of the Civil War in the South, some privileged and some...just folks. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : Thomas F. Curran
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809338030

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Women Making War by Thomas F. Curran Pdf

Partisan activities of disloyal women and the Union army’s reaction During the American Civil War, more than four hundred women were arrested and imprisoned by the Union Army in the St. Louis area. The majority of these women were fully aware of the political nature of their actions and had made conscious decisions to assist Confederate soldiers in armed rebellion against the U.S. government. Their crimes included offering aid to Confederate soldiers, smuggling, spying, sabotaging, and, rarely, serving in the Confederate army. Historian Thomas F. Curran’s extensive research highlights for the first time the female Confederate prisoners in the St. Louis area, and his thoughtful analysis shows how their activities affected Federal military policy. Early in the war, Union officials felt reluctant to arrest women and waited to do so until their conduct could no longer be tolerated. The war progressed, the women’s disloyal activities escalated, and Federal response grew stronger. Some Confederate partisan women were banished to the South, while others were held at Alton Military Prison and other sites. The guerilla war in Missouri resulted in more arrests of women, and the task of incarcerating them became more complicated. The women’s offenses were seen as treasonous by the Federal government. By determining that women—who were excluded from the politics of the male public sphere—were capable of treason, Federal authorities implicitly acknowledged that women acted in ways that had serious political meaning. Nearly six decades before U.S. women had the right to vote, Federal officials who dealt with Confederate partisan women routinely referred to them as citizens. Federal officials created a policy that conferred on female citizens the same obligations male citizens had during time of war and rebellion, and they prosecuted disloyal women in the same way they did disloyal men. The women arrested in the St. Louis area are only a fraction of the total number of female southern partisans who found ways to advance the Confederate military cause. More significant than their numbers, however, is what the fragmentary records of these women reveal about the activities that led to their arrests, the reactions women partisans evoked from the Federal authorities who confronted them, the impact that women’s partisan activities had on Federal military policy and military prisons, and how these women’s experiences were subsumed to comport with a Lost Cause myth—the need for valorous men to safeguard the homes of defenseless women.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Massey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803282133

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Women in the Civil War by Mary Elizabeth Massey Pdf

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