Through Her Eyes: 20 Women's Narratives of the Civil War
Diaries, Memoirs, and Eyewitness Accounts of War, Nursing, Emancipation, and SurvivalBy Louisa May Alcott, Eliza Frances Andrews, Susie King Taylor, William E. Barton, Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan, Susan R. Jervey, Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, Myrta Lockett Avary, Mary Ann Loughborough, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Mary Ann Harris Gay, Parthenia Antoinette Hague, George Barton, Fannie A. Beers, Maud E. Morrow, Phoebe Yates Pember, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, S. Emma E. Edmonds, Tillie Pierce Alleman
Length199h 12m
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Through Her Eyes: 20 Women's Narratives of the Civil War recasts the conflict through intimate, observant, and often unsettling accounts of those who endured it beyond the battlefield. Ranging across memoir, diary-like recollection, personal testimony, and retrospective narrative, the volume juxtaposes domestic disruption, military service, nursing, enslavement and emancipation, occupation, bereavement, and survival. Its standout value lies in the cumulative force of these firsthand perspectives, which complicate familiar martial histories by revealing war as a social, emotional, and political experience. The contributors include writers from Union and Confederate communities, women associated with hospitals and armies, civilians living under invasion or occupation, and Black women whose testimony records the stakes of freedom with particular urgency. Figures such as Louisa May Alcott, Susie King Taylor, Mary Boykin Chesnut, and Sarah Morgan Dawson join less frequently taught witnesses in a capacious archive of nineteenth-century women's writing. Together, their voices illuminate the Civil War's intersections with gender ideology, regional allegiance, race, class, and the emerging culture of memoir. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to encounter the Civil War in plural. Its contrasting styles and commitments encourage close comparison, historical inquiry, and sustained reflection on whose stories shape collective memory.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length199 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Voices From The Past – Hundreds of Testimonies by Former Slaves In One Volume (Annotated)
2Through Her Eyes: 20 Women's Narratives of the Civil War
3My Memoirs of the Civil War
4Biography of Louisa May Alcott
5CHAPTER I. GENEALOGY AND PARENTAGE.
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6CHAPTER II. CHILDHOOD.
7CHAPTER III. FRUITLANDS.
8CHAPTER IV. THE SENTIMENTAL PERIOD.
9CHAPTER V. AUTHORSHIP.
10CHAPTER VI. THE YEAR OF GOOD LUCK.
11CHAPTER VII. HOSPITAL SKETCHES.
12CHAPTER VIII. EUROPE AND LITTLE WOMEN.
13CHAPTER IX. EUROPE.
14CHAPTER X. FAMILY CHANGES.
15CHAPTER XI. LAST YEARS.
16CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION.
17Civil War Memoirs – The Hospital Sketches
18CHAPTER I OBTAINING SUPPLIES.
19CHAPTER II A FORWARD MOVEMENT.
20CHAPTER III A DAY.
21CHAPTER IV A NIGHT.
22CHAPTER V OFF DUTY.
23CHAPTER VI A POSTSCRIPT.
24Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields
25CHAPTER I.
26CHAPTER III.
27CHAPTER VI.
28CHAPTER IX.
29CHAPTER XII.
30CHAPTER XIV.
31CHAPTER XVII.
32CHAPTER XX.
33CHAPTER XXIII.
34CHAPTER XXVI.
35CHAPTER XXIX.
36The Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl
37INTRODUCTION
38CHAPTER I
39CHAPTER II
40CHAPTER III
41CHAPTER IV
42CHAPTER V
43CHAPTER VI
44CHAPTER VII
45CONCLUSION
46Reminiscences of My Life in Camp
47PREFACE
48INTRODUCTION
49LETTER FROM COL. C. T. TROWBRIDGE
50I A BRIEF SKETCH OF MY ANCESTORS
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