This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age; it may contain imperfections such as marks; notations; marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important; we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting; preserving; and promoting the world's literature in affordable; high quality; modern editions that are true to the original work.
#3671672 in Books Michigan State University Press 1994-12-31Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x 1.00 x 6.00l; 1.46 #File Name: 0870133683439 pages
Review
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good work; but somewhat biasedBy Thomas R. FasuloWhile this was certainly an interesting book on women during the Civil War period; one of many in my library; I only gave it three stars as I felt the author had an agenda.For example; it is only toward the middle of the book that the author begins recounting stories favoring the Union cause. For example; the author quotes numerous letters from southern women urging their men to fight for the South. Of course; this was true in the early days of the war; but the author then neglects to later tell of the numerous southern women urging their men to desert the Southern cause later in the war. As many historians have pointed out; this was a major factor in the high desertion rate in the Southern armies.Also; the author quotes numerous letters from Union soldiers to their wives and lady friends; denouncing the Emancipation Proclamation in the latter months of 1862; decrying it as a tool to change the main aim of the war to free the 'blacks.' This also occurred; but later letters from the front changed their tune and defended the war as also being a fight to free the slaves from bondage. This was due to the soldiers actually seeing the conditions of the slaves in the territories they 'liberated' from Southern control.I thought the most impressive chapter was that dealing with the women who worked in the hospitals on both sides. Yet I was surprised the author didn't quote any of the book written by Phoebe Yates Pender; who was famous for working in the Confederate hospitals around Richmond. Yates was only quoted in the following chapter summing up the end of the war.
