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Title details for Women's War by Stephanie McCurry - Available

Women's War

Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War

by Stephanie McCurry
Teri Schnaubelt
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In this groundbreaking reconsideration of the Civil War, the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning invites us to see America's bloodiest conflict not just as pitting brother against brother but as a woman's war.
When the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confederate women would be innocent noncombatants. Experience soon challenged this simplistic belief. Stephanie McCurry reveals the vital and sometimes confounding roles women played on and off the battlefield. We meet Clara Judd, a Confederate spy whose imprisonment for treason sparked heated controversy, defying the principle of civilian immunity and leading to lasting changes in the laws of war. Hundreds of thousands of enslaved women escaped across Union lines, upending emancipation policies that extended only to enslaved men. The Union's response was to classify fugitive black women as "soldiers' wives," regardless of whether they were married—offering them some protection but placing new obstacles on their path to freedom. In the war's aftermath, the Confederate grande dame Gertrude Thomas wrestled with her loss of status and of her former slaves. War, emancipation, and economic devastation affected her family intimately, and through her life McCurry helps us see how fundamental the changes of Reconstruction were.

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    April 15, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9781977350435
      • File size: 231302 KB
      • Duration: 08:01:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Teri Schnaubelt gives a brisk and energetic narration of this look at the role of women in the American Civil War. McCurry notes how women, free and enslaved, Northern and Southern, were active participants in furthering the goals of whatever side they supported. The challenge of how to deal with supposed noncombatants/civilians has always been a part of warfare and leads to many messy circumstances. As the war continued, the treatment of noncombatants became increasingly harsh. Schnaubelt has a clear voice and a direct, forceful delivery that may be due in part to the author's tone. Her pace is brisk and her intonation somewhat staccato, but the listener is able to follow. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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