Original sentence: Ellen Shields's memoir reveals a Southern woman's reactions to Yankee occupation of the city
Edited sentence: Ellen Shields's memoir reveals a Southern women's reactions to Yankee occupation of the city.Southern men, absent because of the war, were seen to have failed in their homes and in the wider community, forcing the women to use their class-based femininity and their sexuality to deal with the Yankees.The Lost Cause enabled women noncombatants to lay a claim to the central event in their redefinition of Southern history