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.
ISBN:
9781602562073
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (317 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Editors' Introduction -- PART ONE: CONFEDERATE MARRIAGES -- ONE: The Marriage of Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis: A Portrait of the President and the First Lady of the Confederacy -- TWO: The Lee Marriage -- THREE: "A Sweet Solace to My Lonely Heart": "Stonewall" and Mary Anna Jackson and the Civil War -- FOUR: "Cupid Does Not Readily Give Way to Mars": The Marriage of LaSalle Corbell and George E. Pickett -- FIVE: "All Say They Are under Petticoat Government": Lizinka Campbell Brown and Richard S. Ewell -- SIX: The Marriage of Amelia Gayle and Josiah Gorgas -- PART TWO: UNION MARRIAGES -- SEVEN: A Marriage Tested by War: Ulysses and Julia Grant -- EIGHT: General and Mrs.William T. Sherman, a Contentious Union -- NINE: The Reconstruction of "Home": The Civil War and the Marriage of Lawrence and Fannie Chamberlain -- TEN: The Civil War Partnership of Elizabeth and George A. Custer -- ELEVEN: Permutations of a Marriage: John Charles and Jessie Benton Frémont's Civil War Alliance -- TWELVE: "A Good Wife, the Best Friend in the World": The Marriage of Elizabeth Blair and S. Phillips Lee -- Notes -- Authors' Biographies.
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. This study brings the field of Women's Studies to Civil War history to show that their were many cultural battles simultaneously occurring on the home front.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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