Civil War sisterhood
Subtitle: the U.S. Sanitary Commission and women's politics in transition
By: Judith Ann Giesberg.
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: United States Sanitary Commission; Women in politics -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women political activists -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work
Description: "This examination of the women (and men) who served during the Civil War in the U.S. Sanitary Commission (USSC), the largest wartime benevolent institution, challenges established scholarship on the history of women's public activism. Judith Ann Giesberg demonstrates that the Civil War generation of women provided a crucial link between the local evangelical crusades of the early nineteenth century and the sweeping national reform and suffrage movements of the postwar period.".

"Drawing on Sanitary Commission documents and memoirs, the author details how northern elite and middle-class women's experiences in and influence over the USSC formed the impetus for later reform efforts. Giesberg explores the ways in which women honed organizational and administrative skills, developed new strategies that combined strong centralized leadership with regional grassroots autonomy, and created a sisterhood that reached across class lines.".

"This perspective on the evolution of women's political culture will appeal to historians, women's studies scholars, and Civil War buffs alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references p. [219]-229) and index.