Themes of the American Civil War


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Themes of the American Civil War The War Between the States by Susan-Mary Grant (z-lib.org)
Chapters 10, 11, 12, 13. Emancipation and Women in the
Civil War
The new military history may have encouraged greater engagement with the Civil War soldier’s worldview, but recent scholarship, by drawing women more to the fore, raises several crucial questions concerning not just how the war was fought but what its legacy was. Fora valuable survey of the work done to date on women in the Civil War, see Thereas McDevitt, Women
and the American Civil War An Annotated Bibliography (Westport, CT, and
London: Praeger, 2003), which offers a comprehensive listing of books,
articles, and Websites on women’s war activities on home front and battlefield, North and South. For the broader context within which the
“gender battles of the war were fought, see Anne C. Rose, Victorian America
and the Civil War (1992, paperback repr. New York and Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994). Some historians are keen to stress the military involvement of women, which undoubtedly was the experience of some, and studies that explore this topic include Mary Elizabeth Massey,
Women in the Civil War (originally published as Bonnet Brigades, New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966, repr. Lincoln, NE University of Nebraska Press, Richard Hall, Patriots in Disguise Women Warriors of the Civil War
(New York Paragon House, 1993), DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook,
They Fought like Demons Women Soldiers in the American Civil War (Baton
Rouge, LA Louisiana State University Press, 2002), and Elizabeth Leonard,
All the Daring of the Soldier Women of the Civil War Armies (New York and
London: WW. Norton, 1999, paperback repr. London Penguin Books. Equally valuable for students and general readers alike is Leonard’s earlier study Yankee Women Gender Battles in the Civil War (New York and
London: WW. Norton, 1994, paperback repr. Guide to Further Reading

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The subject of gender and the Civil War is explored from a variety of angles in Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds, Divided Houses Gender
and the Civil War (New York and Oxford Oxford University Press, and in a subsequent volume, Battle Scars Gender and Sexuality in the
American Civil War (New York and Oxford Oxford University Press, Other essay collections that contain valuable work on women in the war include Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, eds, Union Soldiers and the
Northern Home Front Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments (New York:
Fordham University Press, 2002), and Joan E. Cashin, ed, The War was You
and Me Civilians in the American Civil War (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2002). Elizabeth Young, Disarming the Nation:
Women’s Writing and the American Civil War (Chicago, IL University of
Chicago Press, 1999) explores the literary response to the conflict, a theme developed further in Alice Fahs’s The Imagined Civil War Popular Literature
of the North and South, 1861–1865 (Chapel Hill, NC, and London University of North Carolina Press, On Union women specifically, Jeanie Attie, Patriotic Toil Northern
Women and the American Civil War (Ithaca, NY, and London Cornell
University Press, 1998), and Judith Ann Giesberg, Civil War Sisterhood
The US. Sanitary Commission and Women’s Politics in Transition (Boston,
MA: Northeastern University Press, 2000), are the best places to start, but students will soon realize how much more has been written on Southern and Confederate—the two, obviously, not being synonymous, since few,
if any, African-American women would have described themselves as
Confederates—women in the war. Here the literature really begins with Anne
Firor Scott, The Southern Lady From Pedestal to Politics, 1830–1930 (Chicago,
IL, and London University of Chicago Press, 1970), and is developed in a range of studies, including Edward DC. Campbell, Jr, and Kym S. Rice,
eds., A Woman’s War Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate
Legacy (Richmond, VA Museum of the Confederacy, and Charlottesville,
VA: University Press of Virginia, 1996), an excellent introduction to the complexities of the Southern woman’s Civil War Catherine Clinton, ed.,

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