A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate Legacy - Paperback

by Edward D. C. Campbell (Author), Suzanne Lebsock (Foreword by), Museum of the Confederacy (Prepared by)

Enhanced by excerpts from primary documents as well as numerous illustrations, this collection of essays by some of the country's most prominent Civil War historians intends to move women to the center stage of Civil War history. Topics range from the experiences of female slave contrabandists, to the lives of rural refugee women, to the effects of the postwar era on African-American women, to the Civil War's legacy in women's suffrage movements.

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'A Woman's War' offers an unforgettable and long-overdue portrait of Southern women during the Civil War and postwar periods.