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Women's war : fighting and surviving the American Civil War
The Civil War is remembered as a war of brother against brother, with women standing innocently on the sidelines. But battlefield realities soon challenged this simplistic understanding of women's place in war. Stephanie McCurry shows that women were indispensable to the unfolding of the Civil War, as they have been--and continue to be--in all wars. With a trio of dramatic stories, McCurry explores unique facets of women's wartime experiences, each one of which played an important part in redefining the meaning and stakes of the Civil War. Clara Judd, a female spy who was imprisoned by the Union for treason, sparked a heated controversy over the principle of civilian immunity, leading to lasting changes in the international laws of war. The hundreds of thousands of enslaved women who escaped to Union lines during the conflict upended military emancipation policies aimed only at enslaved male soldiers. Union leaders responded by casting fugitive black women as \"soldiers' wives,\" offering them a protection of sorts but placing a lasting obstacle on their path to freedom. In the war's aftermath, the former Confederate Gertrude Thomas wrestled with her loss of status amid economic devastation, social collapse, and the new freedom of her former slaves. War and emancipation touched even her intimate family, revealing the full extent of the break in history Reconstruction represented.-- Provided by publisher
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The Woman in Battle
Loreta Janeta Velazquez was the daughter of a Spanish official
living in Cuba. As a young girl she was sent to school in New
Orleans, where she ran away and married a U.S. Army officer. After
the outbreak of the war, she persuaded her husband to renounce his
commission and to join the Confederate forces. After he was killed
in battle, Velazquez disguised herself as a man so that she could
serve, eventually doing so as an officer, a spy, and a blockade
runner. The Woman in Battle tells the amazing story of
Velazquez's experiences in a male-dominated world, offering a
unique perspective on life as a soldier and detailing her many
adventures, including fighting in the First Battle of Bull Run and
Shiloh, where she was allegedly wounded. Upon the book's
publication in 1876, its veracity was questioned, and it continues
to be debated by contemporary historians to this day. A DOCSOUTH
BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings classic works from the
digital library of Documenting the American South back into print.
DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these
works available in paperback and e-book formats. Each book contains
a short summary and is otherwise unaltered from the original
publication. DocSouth Books provide affordable and easily
accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and
general readers.
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Liar, temptress, soldier, spy : four women undercover in the Civil War
\"The never-before-told story of four real-life women who risked everything to take on a life of espionage during the Civil War\"--Provided by publisher.
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