Women in War - 20 Civil War Memoirs & Biographies
Diaries, Nursing Recollections, and Diverse Women's Voices from the American Civil WarBy Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, 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, 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
Length198h 47m
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Women in War gathers twenty Civil War memoirs and biographical narratives that relocate the conflict from battlefield myth to the hospitals, homes, refugee routes, occupied cities, and clandestine networks where women endured and interpreted war. Its documents range from diaries and reminiscences to nursing accounts, espionage narratives, domestic chronicles, and postwar biographical sketches. Encompassing Union and Confederate loyalties, Black and white experience, civilian witness and active service, the volume preserves especially vivid accounts of medical labor, displacement, military campaigning, and the moral strain of divided communities. The contributors include prominent diarists, nurses, teachers, relief workers, scouts, and observers whose writings emerged from markedly different regional, racial, and social positions. Together, their testimony belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of personal war writing while also challenging its conventional masculine focus. The collection's inclusion of formerly enslaved and free Black perspectives alongside elite Southern diarists, Northern reform-minded writers, and women attached to military life reveals how emancipation, gendered labor, loyalty, and survival were inseparable from the war's history. These varied voices turn private record-keeping into a capacious archive of national rupture. Ideal for students, historians, and general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare conflicting memories and literary modes within one volume. It rewards close reading for its educational depth, emotional immediacy, and sustained dialogue between intimate experience and large-scale historical change.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length198 hrs 47 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
2Women in War - 20 Civil War Memoirs & Biographies
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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