Amazing Women of the Civil War Fascinating True Stories of Women Who Made a Difference

Name: Amazing Women of the Civil War Fascinating True Stories of Women Who Made a Difference
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ISBN: 9781558537910

ISBN-10: 1558537910

ISBN-13: 9781558537910

Edition: 1999

Authors: Webb Garrison

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This collection of stories and anecdotes reveals the extent to which women contributed to the war effort during the American Civil War. It is estimated that some 300 women fought on the battlefields, usually disguised as men!

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Incorporated
Publication date: 9/29/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Webb Garrison, formerly associate dean of Emory University and president of McKendree College,nbsp;wrote more than 55 books, including Civil War Curiosities and Civil War Trivianbsp;and Fact Book. Before his deathnbsp;in 2000, Garrison lived in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina.



Introduction



All's Fair in Love and War



Sarah Edmonds, aka Frank Thompson, Nurse and Spy



The Roswell Women, Vanished



Six Vignettes, Surprise! Surprise!



Harriet Tubman, Conductor



Mary Walker, M.D., Square Peg



Kady Brownell, Daughter of the 1st Rhode Island



Army Wives



Mary Custis Lee, Loser



Julia Dent Grant, Defender



Eliza Anderson, Taker



Princess Agnes, Charmer



Lucy Hayes, Scout



Couriers, Spies, and Subversives



Elizabeth Van Lew, Crazy Like a Fox



Belle Boyd, La Belle Rebelle



Major Pauline Cushman, Turnskirt



Emma Sansom, Guide



Nancy Hart, Bushwhacker



Rose Greenhow, Banished



Angels of Mercy



Clarissa Harlowe Barton, Feisty



Phoebe Pember, Observant Matron



Katharine Prescott Wormeley, 70,000 Army Shirts



Dorothea Dix, Indomitable



Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, Human Cyclone



Movers and Shakers



Harriet Beecher Stowe, Novelist



Mary Todd Lincoln, Haunted



Mary Boykin Chesnut, Analyst



Julia Ward Howe, Poet



Louisa May Alcott, Nurse and Author



Barbara Frietchie, Flag Waver



Varina Davis, Relentless



Anna Ella Carroll, Strategist


Conclusion


Index