The War the Women Lived
Subtitle: Female Voices from the Confederate South
By: edited by Walter Sullivan ; with a foreword by George Core
Publisher: J. S. Sanders and Company
Published: January 1996
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781879941304
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; c 1800 to c 1900; Personal narratives, Confedera; U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877); Women In The U.S; United States - State & Local - General; History - Military / War; History: American; North America; Personal narratives, Confederate; Military - General; United States - Civil War; Biography; Diaries; Women; Regional Subjects - South; Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America; History; Sources; United States
Table of contents: title: Foreword / George Core; title: Introduction; title: Brief chronology of the war; title: A note on the selections; title: The women; title: Part one : Hope and glory 1859-1861.; title: The days that are no more / Kate Stone; title: Holbein's ghost / Sarah Rice Pryor; title: The view from the Mills House / Mary Boykin Chesnut; title: Pistols in the churchyard / Catherine Cooper Hopley; title: Part two : Shot and shell 1861-1862.; title: In prison for my country / Rose O'Neal Greenhow; title: A cold way home / Lucy Nickolson Lindsay; title: The sleep of the living / Phoebe Yates Pember; title: We run for our lives / Sarah Morgan; title: The pain of remembering / Cornelia Peake McDonald; title: Part three : Advance and retreat 1863.; title: An invasion of graybacks / Julia Morgan; title: Fleeing from our servants / Kate Stone; title: Returning to brother / Sarah Morgan; title: My yard is a battlefield / Cornelia Peake McDonald; title: Guidance for Stonewall / Belle Boyd; title: A spy in woman's clothing / Loréta Janéta Velazquez; title: What modesty requires / Kate Cumming; title: Part four : Days of courage 1864.; title: The soldiers stare with open eyes / Mary Boykin Chesnut; title: A meeting at sea / Belle Boyd; title: A cap for Mrs. Worthey / Céline Frémaux; title: A funeral in the rain / Phoebe Yates Pember; title: Searching for cartridge boxes / Céline Frémaux; title: Alone on the road with Yankee / Mary Ann Harris Gay; title: Thirty thousand dollars poorer / Dolly Lunt Burge; title: A birth in the ruins / Mary Jones and Mary Mallard; title: Part five : Last things 1865.; title: Lucifer in starlight / Emma LeConte; title: Hetty Cary's wedding / Constance Cary Harrison; title: Food for the wounded / Phoebe Yates Pember; title: A garland for Mrs. Stuart / Mrs. Alexander H. Major; title: The end of all we cherished / Judith Brokenbrough McGuire; title: Remembering God's promises / Cornelia Peake McDonald; title: The last march home / Eliza Andrews; title: Epilogue