The United States Sanitary Commission

The United States Sanitary Commission
Title The United States Sanitary Commission PDF eBook
Author Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Publisher
Pages 324
Release 1863
Genre United States
ISBN

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Patriotic Toil

Patriotic Toil
Title Patriotic Toil PDF eBook
Author Jeanie Attie
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 324
Release 1998
Genre History
ISBN 9780801422249

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During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organization that would ensure women's support for the war effort served an elite, liberal vision of nationhood. Coming after years of debate over women's place in the democracy and status as citizens, soldier relief work offered women an occasion to demonstrate their patriotism and their rights to inclusion in the body politic. Exploring the economic and ideological conflicts that surrounded women's unpaid labors on behalf of the Union army, Jeanie Attie reveals the impact of the Civil War on the gender structure of nineteenth-century America. She illuminates how the war became a testing ground for the gendering of political rights and the ideological separation of men's and women's domains of work and influence. Attie draws on letters by hundreds of women in which they reflect on their political awakenings at the war's outbreak and their increasing skepticism of national policies as the conflict dragged on. Her book integrates the Civil War into the history of American gender relations and the development of feminism, providing a nuanced analysis of the relationship among gender construction, class development, and state formation in nineteenth-century America.

My Story of the War

My Story of the War
Title My Story of the War PDF eBook
Author Mary Ashton Livermore
Publisher
Pages 718
Release 1889
Genre Flags
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Anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reminiscences portraying the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary service of the war.

Rules for Preserving the Health of the Soldier

Rules for Preserving the Health of the Soldier
Title Rules for Preserving the Health of the Soldier PDF eBook
Author William Holme Van Buren
Publisher
Pages 20
Release 1861
Genre Military hygiene
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Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American Soldiers

Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American Soldiers
Title Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American Soldiers PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Apthorp Gould
Publisher
Pages 704
Release 1869
Genre Anthropology
ISBN

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Civil War Sisterhood

Civil War Sisterhood
Title Civil War Sisterhood PDF eBook
Author Judith Ann Giesberg
Publisher UPNE
Pages 260
Release 2006-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781555536589

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A study that challenges established scholarship on the history of women's public activism.

Army at Home

Army at Home
Title Army at Home PDF eBook
Author Judith Giesberg
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 247
Release 2009-09-01
Genre History
ISBN 0807895601

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Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own. Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As they became more active in their new roles, they became visible as political actors, writing letters, signing petitions, moving (or refusing to move) from their homes, and confronting civilian and military officials. At the heart of the book are stories of women who fought the draft in New York and Pennsylvania, protested segregated streetcars in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and demanded a living wage in the needle trades and safer conditions at the Federal arsenals where they labored. Giesberg challenges readers to think about women and children who were caught up in the military conflict but nonetheless refused to become its collateral damage. She offers a dramatic reinterpretation of how America's Civil War reshaped the lived experience of race and gender and brought swift and lasting changes to working-class family life.