Themes of the American Civil War
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| Postwar Adjustments (New York, 2002), pp. 143–81, 395–416. On women pushing against the gender conventions of the day, see Richard, Listen, ladies pp. 177–81 and passim. 5. Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865, in Roy F. Basler, ed, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick, NJ, 1953) VIII, p. 333; Elizabeth Leonard, Yankee Women Gender Battles in the Civil War (1994, repr. New York and London, p. xv. 6. Catherine Clinton, ed, Half Sisters of History Southern Women and the American Past (Durham, NC, George C. Rable, Missing inaction Women of the Confederacy in Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds, Divided Houses Gender and the Civil War (New York and Oxford, pp. 134–46, quotation pp. Elizabeth Young, Disarming the Nation Women’s Writing and the American Civil War (Chicago, IL, 1999), p. 1; Jeanie Attie, War Work and the Crisis of Domesticity in the North,” in Clinton and Silber, Divided Houses, pp. 247–59, quotation p. 247. 9. DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook, They Fought like Demons Women Soldiers of the American Civil War (Baton Rouge, LA, 2002), passim Leonard also notes that by the time of the First World War women’s historical centrality to the military had been all but forgotten Elizabeth Leonard, All the Daring of the Soldier Women of the Civil War Armies (New York and London, 1999, repr. London, 2001), p. 101; Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Billy Women and the Civil War • 289 Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (1952, repr. Baton Rouge, LA, 1989), p. 339; Mary Elizabeth Massey, Women in the Civil War (originally published as Bonnet Brigades, New York, repr. Lincoln, NE, 1994), pp. 78–9, 84. Wiley also suggested that a few of the women who disguised themselves as men were persons of easy virtue who enrolled as soldiers to further their lewd enterprises but he stressed that the majority . . . were reputable characters, motivated by patriotism or a desire to be near husbands or sweethearts Wiley, Life of Billy Yank, pp. 138–9; Leonard, All the Daring of the Soldier, p. 248. See also Richard Hall, Patriots in Disguise Women Warriors of the Civil War (New York, Index entry in Reid Mitchell, Civil War Soldiers Their Expectations and their Experiences (New York, 1988). It should be noted that an entry of combatants appears under women in a survey study of the Civil War that also acknowledges that women soldiers did exist and that they fought for many reasons—to uphold political principles, to enjoy the drama of battle, to support themselves, and to accompany their loved ones David Herbert Donald, Jean Harvey Baker and Michael F. Holt, The Civil War and Reconstruction (New York and London, 2001), p. 375; Mary A. Livermore, My Story of the War (Hartford, CT, 1889), p. Leonard, All the Daring of the Soldier, p. 165, and see her discussion of estimating figures in her notes, pp. 310–11. Figures for nurses are from Leonard, Yankee Women, pp. 7–8; Wiley, Life of Billy Yank Massey, Women in the Civil War, p. 174; Rosecrans, quoted in Massey, Women of the Civil War, p. Leonard, All the Daring of the Soldier, pp. 168 ff. and passim Livermore, My Story of the War, p. 112; Leonard, All the Daring of the Soldier, pp. 135–6, Turchin quotation p. 140; on Etheridge, pp. 106 ff, esp. pp. 109, Leonard, Yankee Women, p. 13; George C. Rable, Civil Wars Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana and Chicago, IL, 1989), pp. 124, 127; Leonard, Yankee Women, p. Walker quotation pp. Nell Irvin Painter, Representing Truth Sojourner Truth’s Knowing and Becoming Known,” Journal of American History 81: 2 (September 1994), pp. 461–92, quotation p. Henrietta Buckmaster, Let my People Go The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth Download 2.25 Mb. Share with your friends:
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