Intimate strategies of the Civil War military commanders and their wives
Title:
Intimate strategies of the Civil War military commanders and their wives
Author:
Bleser, Carol K. Rothrock.
ISBN:
9780198027492
9780195115093
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiii, 292 p., [8] p. of plates) : ports.
Contents:
The marriage of Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis : a portrait of the President and the First Lady of the Confederacy / Carol K. Bleser -- The Lee marriage / Emory M. Thomas -- "A sweet solace to my lonely heart" : "Stonewall" and Mary Anna Jackson and the Civil War / Sarah E. Gardner -- "Cupid does not readily give way to Mars" : the marriage of LaSalle Corbell and George E. Pickett / Lesley J. Gordon -- "All say they are under petticoat government" : Lizinka Campbell Brown and Richard S. Ewell / Peter S. Carmichael -- The marriage of Amelia Gayle and Josiah Gorgas / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins -- A marriage tested by war : Ulysses and Julia Grant / John Y. Simon -- General and Mrs. William T. Sherman, a contentious union / John F. Marszalek -- The reconstruction of "home" : the Civil War and the marriage of Lawrence and Fannie Chamberlain / Jennifer Lund Smith -- The Civil War partnership of Elizabeth and George A. Custer / Shirley A. Leckie -- Permutations of a marriage : John Charles and Jessie Benton Frémont's Civil War alliance / Pamela Herr -- "A good wife, the best friend in the world" : the marriage of Elizabeth Blair and S. Phillips Lee / Virginia Jeans Laas.
Abstract:
The wives of Civil War commanders had widely divergent roles in their marriages before, during, and after the war - some wives changed their roles as their husbands gained prominence. Most of the wives of military commanders in this collection sought to have some influence over their husband's professional career with mixed success.
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