The Civil War Bawdy Houses of Washington, D.C. with Other
"The foldout map is an important documentation of a side of Washington that is ignored." CIVIL WAR NEWS."The map [of Washington DC whorehouses] would have been of considerable interest and value to a healthy male in 1865." CIVIL WAR COURIER"On a scale of one to ten, we rate Dr.Lowry's book at 8.5 scalpels." JOURNAL OF CIVIL WAR MEDICINEThe Civil War Bawdy Houses of Washington, D. C. has to be one of the most unique, unusual, and yet historically accurate books ever written on the American Civil War experience. Thomas Lowry has done painstaking research on a most unusual subject. Yet this was a time when prostitution and "houses of ill repute" were to be found in virtually every substantial city in the east, and every cow-town in the west. The public and governmental attitudes of a century ago toward "working girls" and their patrons were dramatically different than what we see today. This novel historical treatise is enhanced with a map showing the location of more than sixty bordellos and an official U. S. Government ratings as to their quality! No American cultural history or Civil War studies collection can be considered complete without the inclusion of Thomas Lowry's serious study on The Civil War Bawdy Houses of Washington, D. C.  --Midwest Book Review