Daughters of the Union Northern Women Fight the Civil War

Name: Daughters of the Union Northern Women Fight the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780674016774

ISBN-10: 0674016777

ISBN-13: 9780674016774

Edition: 2005

Authors: Nina Silber

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Daughters of the Union casts a spotlight on some of the most overlooked and least understood participants in the American Civil War: the women of the North. Unlike their Confederate counterparts, who were often caught in the midst of the conflict, most Northern women remained far from the dangers of battle. Nonetheless, they enlisted in the Union cause on their home ground, and the experience transformed their lives. Nina Silber traces the emergence of a new sense of self and citizenship among the women left behind by Union soldiers. She offers a complex account, bolstered by women's own words from diaries and letters, of the changes in activity and attitude wrought by the war. Women…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/16/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Nina Silber is professor of history at Boston University. She is author or editor of five other books, including The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 (from the University of North Carolina Press).



Prologue: Summoned to War, Charged to Patriotism



Loyalties in Conflict



The Economic Battlefront



Domesticity under Siege



From Patriots to Partisans, and Back Again



Aiding the Cause, Serving the State



Saving the Sick, Healing the Nation



Wartime Emancipation



American Women and the Enduring Power of the State


Epilogue: An Ambiguous Legacy


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index