Heroines of Dixie

Heroines of Dixie
Title Heroines of Dixie PDF eBook
Author Katharine Macbeth Jones
Publisher Greenwood
Pages 476
Release 1973
Genre History
ISBN

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Through the use of diaries and letters, this book tells what ordinary women in Confederate States were doing at home during the Civil War. There is great detail about what rural farm women were doing as well as plantation dwellers.

Heroines of Dixie Confederate Women Tell Their Story of the War

Heroines of Dixie Confederate Women Tell Their Story of the War
Title Heroines of Dixie Confederate Women Tell Their Story of the War PDF eBook
Author Katharine M Jones
Publisher Andesite Press
Pages 468
Release 2015-08-09
Genre
ISBN 9781297614804

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Confederate Heroines

Confederate Heroines
Title Confederate Heroines PDF eBook
Author Thomas P. Lowry
Publisher LSU Press
Pages 235
Release 2006-10-01
Genre History
ISBN 0807129909

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The Role of Female Confederate Spies in the Civil War

The Role of Female Confederate Spies in the Civil War
Title The Role of Female Confederate Spies in the Civil War PDF eBook
Author Hallie Murray
Publisher Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Pages 106
Release 2019-12-15
Genre Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN 150265542X

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Barred from fighting for their beliefs on the battlefield, though many tried, Southern women served the Confederacy in other ways, like through the timeless art of espionage. Confederate women used their wits, charm, and beauty to discover Union secrets and carry out covert operations for the war efforts. This insightful book highlights these little-discussed Confederate figures, including the famously persuasive Rose O'Neal. Readers will meet the Moon sisters, who used their acting skills to smuggle information and supplies under the noses of Union soldiers using all manner of disguises.

American Women at the Crossroads: Directions for the Future

American Women at the Crossroads: Directions for the Future
Title American Women at the Crossroads: Directions for the Future PDF eBook
Author United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher
Pages 132
Release 1971
Genre Women
ISBN

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Belles and Poets

Belles and Poets
Title Belles and Poets PDF eBook
Author Julia Nitz
Publisher LSU Press
Pages 296
Release 2020-11-04
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0807174602

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In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they made sense of the world around them through references to literary texts. Nitz finds that many diarists incorporated allusions to poems, plays, and novels, especially works by Shakespeare and the British Romantic poets, in moments of uncertainty and crisis. While previous studies have overlooked or neglected such literary allusions in personal writings, regarding them as mere embellishments or signs of elite social status, Nitz reveals that these references functioned as codes through which women diarists contemplated their roles in society and addressed topics related to slavery, Confederate politics, gender, and personal identity. Nitz’s innovative study of identity construction and literary intertextuality focuses on diaries written by the following women: Eliza Frances (Fanny) Andrews of Georgia (1840–1931), Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut of South Carolina (1823–1886), Malvina Sara Black Gist of South Carolina (1842–1930), Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan of Louisiana (1842–1909), Cornelia Peake McDonald of Virginia (1822–1909), Judith White Brockenbrough McGuire of Virginia (1813–1897), Sarah Katherine (Kate) Stone of Louisiana (1841–1907), and Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas of Georgia (1843–1907). These women’s diaries circulated in postwar commemoration associations, and several saw publication. The public acclaim they received helped shape the collective memory of the war and, according to Nitz, further legitimized notions of racial supremacy and segregation. Comparing and contrasting their own lives to literary precedents and fictional role models allowed the diarists to process the privations of war, the loss of family members, and the looming defeat of the Confederacy. Belles and Poets establishes the extent to which literature offered a means of exploring ideas and convictions about class, gender, and racial hierarchies in the Civil War–era South. Nitz’s work shows that literary allusions in wartime diaries expose the ways in which some white southern women coped with the war and its potential threats to their way of life.

Living Hell

Living Hell
Title Living Hell PDF eBook
Author Michael C. C. Adams
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 305
Release 2014-03-15
Genre History
ISBN 1421412217

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"Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Tourists flock to battlefields, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who cannot ultimately simulate the horrors of war. In Living Hell, Adams uses the voices of actual participants on the firing line or in the hospital ward to create a virtual historical reenactment. Perhaps because the United States has not seen conventional war on its own soil since 1865, the collective memory has faded, so that we have sanitized and romanticized the experience of the Civil War. Living Hell presents a stark portrait of the human costs of the Civil War and gives readers a more accurate appreciation of its profound and lasting consequences. Adams examines the sharp contrast between the expectations of recruits versus the realities of dirt and exposure, poor diet, malnutrition, and disease. He describes the slaughter produced by close-order combat, the difficulties of cleaning up the battlefields-- often tens of thousands of dead and wounded--and the resulting psychological damage to survivors. Drawing extensively on letters and memoirs of individual soldiers, Adams assembles vivid accounts of the distress they faced daily. Providing a powerful counterpoint to Civil War glorification, Living Hell echoes William Tecumseh Sherman's comment that war is cruelty and cannot be refined"--From publisher description.