Themes of the American Civil War

http://docsouth.unc.edu/velazquez/menu.html (May 3, 2005) and has been republished with an introduction by Jesse Aleman: Loreta Velazquez, The Woman in Battle The Civil War
Narrative of Loreta Velazquez, a Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier (Madison, WI, 2003);
Rable, Civil Wars, p. Drew Gilpin Faust, Altars of Sacrifice Confederate Women and Narratives of War in
Clinton and Silber, Divided Houses, pp. 171–99, quotations pp. 199, 172, 174, 184; Jacqueline
Glass Campbell, When Sherman Marched North from the Sea Resistance on the Confederate
Home Front (Chapel Hill, NC, and London, 2003), passim. Earlier studies that also stress the strengthening of women’s resolve in the face of the enemy are Stephen V. Ash, When the
Yankees Came Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861–1865 (1995, repr. Chapel Hill, NC, 2002), esp. pp. 38 ff, and Gary Gallagher, The Confederate War (Cambridge, MA, passim.
22.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household Black and White Women of the
Old South (Chapel Hill, NC, and London, 1988), p. 372; Faust, Mothers of Invention, p. on violence, p. 65; on concepts of ladyhood, p. 7; on plantation mistresses difficulties with slaves in their husband’s absence see also Clarence L. Mohr, On the Threshold of Freedom:
Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (Athens, GA, and London, pp. 186, 221–2; Laura F.
Edwards, Scarlett doesn’t Live here Anymore Southern Women in the Civil War Era (Urbana,
IL, 2000), p. 73; LeeAnn Whites, The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender in Clinton and Silber,
Divided Houses, pp. 3–21, quotation p. 16; Faust, Mothers of Invention, on sacrifice, p. quotation pp. 6–7. Whites, Civil War as a Crisis in Gender pp. 149, 165–6, 168; Karen L. Cox, Dixie’s Daughters:
The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
(Gainesville, FL, 2003); W. Scott Poole, Never Surrender Confederate Memory and
Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry (Athens, GA, and London, 2004), pp. 67–8, William Blair, Cities of the Dead Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South,
1865–1914 (Chapel Hill, NC, 2004), p. 54.
24.
Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household, p. 373; Catherine Clinton, Tara Revisited:
Women, War, and the Plantation Legend (New York, 1995); Reconstructing Freedwomen,”
in Clinton and Silber, Divided Houses, pp. For full information on the Freedmen project and the published volumes to date, seethe project Website at www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/fssphome.htm (May 2, 2005); Mohr, On
the Threshold of Freedom; Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom The
Economic Consequences of Emancipation (Cambridge and New York, 1977); Julie Saville, The
Work of Reconstruction From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860–1870 (1994, repr.
Cambridge and New York, 1996); see also Michael Wayne, The Reshaping of Plantation Society:
The Natchez District, 1860–1880 (Baton Rouge, LA, 1983), and Thavolia Glymph and J. J.
Kushma, eds, Essays on the Post-bellum Southern Economy (College Station, TX, Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow Black Women, Work, and the Family, from
Slavery to the Present (New York, 1985); Leslie A. Schwalm, A Hard Fight for We Women’s
Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Urbana, IL, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Negro Family The Case for National Action (Washington, DC see also Lee Rainwater and William L. Yancey, The Moynihan Report and the Politics of
Controversy (Cambridge, MA, Jones, Labor of Love, pp. 48–9; Leon F. Liwack, Been in the Storm so Long The Aftermath of
Slavery (1979, repr. New York, 1980), pp. 129–31.
28.
Thavolia Glymph, This species of property Female Slave Contrabands in the Civil War,”
in Edward DC. Campbell, Jr, and Kym S. Rice, eds, A Woman’s War Southern Women, Civil
War, and the Confederate Legacy (Richmond, VA, 1996), pp. 55–71, quotations pp. 59–60, Wilma King, Suffer with them till death Slave Women and their Children in Nineteenth
Century America in David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine, eds, More than Chattel:
Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN, 1996), pp. 147–68, quotation p. 161; on this point see also Jones, Labor of Love, pp. 47, 51; Glymph,
“‘This species of property pp. 61–2, 64–5; Schwalm, Hard Fight for We, pp. 78–9; Noralee
Frankel, Freedom’s Women Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi
(Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN, 1999); on her use of sources in reconstructing freedwomen’s lives see also Noralee Frankel, From Slave Women to Free Women The
National Archives and Black Women’s History in the Civil War Era Prologue 29: 2 (summer, at www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/summer_1997_slave_women.html (May, Women and the Civil War
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Jones, Labor of Love, pp. 45–6; Frankel, Freedom’s Women, p. 48; Glymph, This Species of
Property’,” p. Clinton, Tara Revisited, p. 17; Leonard, Yankee Women, pp. 182, 179; Anne C. Rose, Victorian
America and the Civil War (1992, repr. New York and Cambridge, 1994), p. Gerald F. Linderman, Embattled Courage The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War
(1987, repr. New York and London, 1989), pp. 283–4; Leonard, Yankee Women, Reid Mitchell, The Vacant Chair The Northern Soldier leaves Home (1993, repr. New York and Oxford, 1995), pp. 146–7; Thomas P. Lowry, The Story the Soldiers wouldn’t Tell Sex
in the Civil War (Mechanicsburg, PA, 1994), p. 4; Linderman, Embattled Courage, p. David Blight, Race and Reunion The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge, MA, and
London, 2001), pp. 381–7.

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