Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice

By Thomas F. Curran

During the American Civil War, hundreds of women were arrested and imprisoned by the Union Army in the St. Louis area. Their crimes included offering aid to Confederate soldiers, smuggling, spying, and sabotaging. Thomas F. Curran analyzes the activities that led to arrests, the reactions women partisans evoked from Federal authorities, and the impact women's partisan activities had on Federal military policy and military prisons. He reveals how these women's experiences were later disregarded in order to comport with a Lost Cause myth: the need for valiant men to protect defenseless women. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809338033
• ISBN13: 9780809338030
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"