Women in the Civil War

The Civil War wrought cataclysmic changes in the lives of American Women on both sides of the conflict. Women in the Civil War demonstrates their enterprise, fortitude, and fierceness. In this revealing social history, Massey focuses on many famous women, including nurses Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, and Mother Bickerdyke
spies Pauline Cushman and Belle Boyd
writers Louisa May Alcott, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Chestnut
pamphleteer and military strategist Anna Ella Carroll
black abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth
feminists Susan B. Anthony and Jane Grey Swisshelm
and political wives Varina Davis and Mary Todd Lincoln. The anonymous women who maintained farms and plantations are described, as are camp followers, businesswomen, entertainers, activists, and socialites in Charleston and Washington. Mary Elizabeth Massey also wrote Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront. Introducing this Bison Books edition is Jean V. Berlin. She is an assistant editor of the correspondence of William T. Sherman.