Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War PDF
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Women’s War Women’s War Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War Stephanie McCurry The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts London, England 2019 Copyright © 2019 by Stephanie McCurry All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First printing Jacket artwork: Detail of Confederates Advancing to the Capture of Disabled Guns, Gaines by Alfred R. Waud, 1862. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints & Mills, Photographs Division. Jacket design: Tim Jones 9780674239937 (EPUB) 9780674239944 (MOBI) 9780674239920 (PDF) The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Names: McCurry, Stephanie, author. Title: W omen’s war : fighting and surviving the American Civil War / Stephanie McCurry. Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018045331 | ISBN 9780674987975 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: United States— History— Civil War, 1861–1865— Women. | Spies— Confederate States of Amer i ca. | Women spies— Confederate States of Amer i ca. | Women slaves— United States— History—19th century. | Fugitive slaves— United States— History—19th century. | Civil- military relations— United States— History—19th century. | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865–1877)— Georgia. | United States— History— Civil War, 1861–1865— Influence. Classification: LCC E628 .M35 2019 | DDC 973.7082– dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2018045331 For Saoirse Contents Preface ix Prologue 1 1. Enemy W omen and the Laws of War 15 2. The Story of the Black Soldier’s Wife 63 3. Reconstructing a Life amid the Ruins 124 Epilogue 203 Notes 215 Acknowledgments 281 Index 287
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