Women of the Civil War South
Subtitle: personal accounts from diaries, letters, and postwar reminiscences
By: compiled by Marilyn Mayer Culpepper.
Contributors: Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Women -- Confederate States of America -- Biography; Women -- United States -- Biography; Women -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects; Confederate States of America -- Biography; Confederate States of America -- Social conditions -- Sources
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives, Confederate.; Sources.
Description: This book presents excerpts from diaries and letters written by Southern women from different perspectives and areas of the country. Mary White, a fifteen-year-old girl, attempted to get through the blockade in Wilmington, North Carolina; Josie LeConte witnessed the burning of Columbia, South Carolina; Nancy Jones lived in fear amid the violence that rocked Mossouri and saw her family and close friends murdered and her young son taken prisoner by the Yankees; Sarah Dandridge Duval and her family were refugees near Richmond. The book includes reminiscences from Union and Confederate women living in Winchester, Virginia, a town that reportedly changed hands 76 times during the war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Troubled waters : running the blockade; title: Poverty and pride; title: A precarious existence; title: Turmoil, war and wretchedness; title: Life in a divided city : perspective from Winchester, Virginia; title: Death of a cause.