The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

by Thavolia Glymph

Book Overview

Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war"--the military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery. In this broadly conceived book, Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War--North and South, white and black, slave and free--showing how women were essentially and fully engaged in all three arenas. Glymph...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469672502
• ISBN13: 9781469672502
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"