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Author McCurry, Stephanie, author.

Title Women's war : fighting and surviving the American Civil War / Stephanie McCurry.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary The Civil War is remembered as a war of brother against brother, with women standing innocently on the sidelines. But battlefield realities soon challenged this simplistic understanding of women's place in war. Stephanie McCurry shows that women were indispensable to the unfolding of the Civil War, as they have been--and continue to be--in all wars. With a trio of dramatic stories, McCurry explores unique facets of women's wartime experiences, each one of which played an important part in redefining the meaning and stakes of the Civil War. Clara Judd, a female spy who was imprisoned by the Union for treason, sparked a heated controversy over the principle of civilian immunity, leading to lasting changes in the international laws of war. The hundreds of thousands of enslaved women who escaped to Union lines during the conflict upended military emancipation policies aimed only at enslaved male soldiers. Union leaders responded by casting fugitive black women as "soldiers' wives," offering them a protection of sorts but placing a lasting obstacle on their path to freedom. In the war's aftermath, the former Confederate Gertrude Thomas wrestled with her loss of status amid economic devastation, social collapse, and the new freedom of her former slaves. War and emancipation touched even her intimate family, revealing the full extent of the break in history Reconstruction represented.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Enemy women and the laws of war -- The story of the black soldier's wife -- Reconstructing a life amidst the ruins.
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Subject Women -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Spies -- Confederate States of America.
Spies.
Women spies -- Confederate States of America.
Women spies.
Enslaved women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved women.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Civil-military relations -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Georgia.
Fugitive slaves.
Georgia.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
Civil-military relations.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Women.
United States -- Confederate States of America.
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: McCurry, Stephanie. Women's war. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019 9780674987975 (DLC) 2018045331 (OCoLC)1074288711
ISBN 9780674239920 (electronic book)
067423992X (electronic book)
9780674987975
0674987977