Confederate Women
by Bell Irvin Wiley
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Southern women of the 1860's, as here revealed with the help of their own letters and diaries, were decidedly not the clinging vines described in romantic writings of later years. In a very real sense, the tragic Civil War was, for the Confederates, a women's war. Women were ardent in advocating secession. Women were indefatigable in running farms and families and infirmaries while their men fought. Throughout the hopeless war, the women conducted themselves in ways that earned the solid show more respect of their men, and in ways that won for women the first measured gains toward equality. show lessTags
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Bell Irvin Wiley (1906-1980) held professorships at Louisiana State University, Emory University, and Agnes Scott College.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 973.7 — History & geography History of North America United States Civil War Era (1857-1865)
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- E467 .W48 — History of the United States United States Civil War period, 1861-1865 The Civil War, 1861-1865
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