Women in the American Civil War

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Amazing Women of the Civil War
by Webb B. Garrison
Paperback from Rutledge Hill Press

American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier (Ohio River Valley Series)
by Anna Briggs Bentley, Emily Foster, Rita Kohn
from University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813122651

The American Woman's Home by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nicole Tonkovich
Paperback from Rutgers University Press

 

Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy by Seymour Reit, Patrick B. Whelan Book Description: In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men’s clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army. Posing in turn as a slave, peddler, washerwoman, and fop, Emma became a cunning master of disguise, risking discovery and death at every turn behind Confederate lines. Reading level: Ages 9-12 Paperback from Gulliver Books

Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
by Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Smith Foster
Paperback from Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd)

Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison
by Belle Boyd, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Drew Gilpin Faust
Paperback from Louisiana State University Press

Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868 (Library of Southern Civilization)
by John Q. Anderson, Kate Stone, Drew Gilpin Faust
Paperback from Louisiana State University Press

Civil War Women: Their Quilts ¥ Their Roles ¥ Activities for Re-Enactors
by Barbara Brackman
Paperback from C & T Pub

Cynthia Ann Parker : The Life and Legend
by Margaret Schmidt Hacker
Paperback from Texas Western Press

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Diary of a Union Lady, 1861-1865
by Maria Lydig Daly, Harold Earl Hammond, Jean V. Berlin
Paperback from Bison Bks Corp

 

Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War by Catherine Clinton, Nina Silber, James M. McPherson from Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195080343

The Passion of Abby Hemenway: Memory, Spirit, and the Making of History
by Deborah Pickman Clifford
from Vermont Historical Society
ISBN: 0934720479
 

Sarah Morgan : The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman by Charles East from Touchstone Books ISBN: 0671785036

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War (Conflicting Worlds) by Deanne Blanton, Lauren M. Cook from Louisiana State University Press ISBN: 0807128066

Secret Missions of the Civil War: First-Hand Accounts by Men and Women Who Risked Their Lives in Underground Activities for the North and the South by Philip Van Doren Stern from Bonanza Books ISBN: 0517000024

Girl in Blue
by Ann Rinaldi
A Novel. Reading level: Ages 9-12
from Scholastic
ISBN: 0439073367
 

Love and Valor : Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner by Charles F. Larimer from Sigourney Press, Inc. ISBN: 0967386306

Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era
by Laura F. Edwards
from Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd)
ISBN: 0252025687

A Southern Girl in '61 : The War-time Memoirs of a Confederate Senator's Daughter, 1861-1865
by Louise Wigfall Wright
from Corner House Historical Publications
ISBN: 0879281316
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Mary's World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston by Richard N. Cote Book Description: Born to affluence and opportunity in the South's Golden Age, Mary Motte Alston Pringle (1803-1884) represented the epitome of Southern white womanhood. Her husband was a wealthy rice planter who owned four plantations and 337 slaves. Her thirteen children included two Harvard scholars, seven world travelers, a U.S. Navy war hero, six Confederate soldiers, one possible Union collaborator, a Confederate firebrand trapped in the North, an expatriate bon vivant in France, and two California pioneers. Mary's World illuminates in lavish detail the world and psyche of this wealthy, well-educated, well-intentioned woman and her family from the antebellum South.  During the Civil War, Mary and her husband, William, stood helpless as two sons were killed, another was driven insane, their slaves were freed, and the world as they knew it was swept away by a hurricane of social change. In her own words, Mary tells us about the joys, sorrows, frustrations, and terrors she and her family faced in nineteenth-century Charleston. This intimate, visceral biography was drawn directly from over 2,500 pages of Mary's handwritten letters, journals and diaries, none of which, she could have imagined, would ever be read by strangers. Therein lies their power.  Readers also learn about the vastly different lifestyles, food, clothing, and experiences of their slaves. Mary's World also pays special attention to Cretia Stewart, Mary's favorite servant, Cretia’s husband, Scipio, and their free descendants, some of whom worked for Mary’s grandchildren well into the twentieth century. How Mary, William, their children, and slaves lived before the Civil War, clung desperately to life in the eye of the maelstrom, and coped – or failed to cope -- with its bewildering aftermath is the story of this book. The letters and images they left behind offer priceless insights into the anguished roots of Southern social history.  from Corinthian Books ISBN: 1929175191

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust, FAUST DREW GILPIN
Paperback from Vintage Books

 

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South by Catherine Fosl from Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 0312294875

Soldier Princess: The Life and Legend of Agnes Salm-Salm in North America, 1861-1867 by David Coffey from Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1585441686

Mrs. Robert E. Lee : The Lady of Arlington
by John Perry
Listed under Robert E. Lee

My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience As Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Cam
by Mary A. Livermore, Nina Silber
Paperback from DaCapo Press

A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864
by Elizabeth Scott Neblett, Erika L. Murr
Hardcover from Louisiana State University Press

A Vast Army of Women : Maine's Uncounted Forces in the American Civil War
by Lynda L. Sudlow
Listed under Civil War Maine

The War the Women Lived: Female Voices from the Confederate South
by Walter Sullivan
Hardcover from J S Sanders & Co

 

A Woman's Civil War: A Diary, With Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862 by Cornelia Peake McDonald, Minrose C. Gwin from Gramercy ISBN: 0517222140

Women At Gettysburg by Eileen Conklin from Thomas Publications ISBN: 1577470087 Special Order

The Women's War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War
by Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Catherine Clinton, Katherine Clinton
Paperback from Cumberland House

Women in the Civil War : Warriors, Patriots, Nurses, and Spies
(Perspectives on History)
Phyllis Raybin Emert (Editor)
Paperback
 
 

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