Format:
1 Online-Ressource (350 p)
ISBN:
9781606352786
Series Statement:
Civil War in the North
Content:
Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title PAge -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes to Readers -- Introduction -- Part One: Friendly Fire: Jessie Benton Frémont -- Part Two: Self-Inflicted Wounds: Mary Ellen Marcy McClellan -- Part Three: True Faith and Allegiance: Eleanor Ewing Sherman -- Part Four: Center of Gravity: Julia Dent Grant -- Conclusion: "The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Chapter 1: "the place a son would have had" -- Chapter 2: "Be sure you're right and then go ahead
Content:
Chapter 3: "Frémont and Our Jessie" -- Chapter 4: "quite a female politician" -- Chapter 5: "It is your Lerida" -- Chapter 6: "There is a time to do and a time to stand aside" -- Chapter 7: "you are fond of attention and gaiety" -- Chapter 8: "Flora McFlimsey" -- Chapter 9: "don't send any politicians out here" -- Chapter 10: "you have quite enough else to attend to" -- Chapter 11: "I almost wish … they would displace you" -- Chapter 12: "how the mighty are fallen" -- Chapter 13: "It is high or low tide with us ever
Content:
Chapter 14: "You will never be happy in this world unless you go into the Army again" -- Chapter 15: "releive my husband from the suspicions now resting on him" -- Chapter 16: "I have never dared to murmer at God's decree" -- Chapter 17: "for the privilege of whipping negro wenches" -- Chapter 18: "the Government requires sacrifices from wives" -- Chapter 19: "my opinion of you is unaltered" -- Chapter 20: "No greater glory than to fill a patriot's grave" -- Chapter 21: "sunshine" -- Chapter 22: "this, to me, most delicate subject" -- Chapter 23: "how forsaken I feel here!
Content:
Chapter 24: "Is this my destiny?" -- Chapter 25: "secesh wives with their own little slaves" -- Chapter 26: "Do stop digging at this old canal" -- Chapter 27: Lieutenant General's Wife -- Chapter 28: "I did not want to go to the theater" -- Chapter 29: "the sunlight of his loyal love
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781631011986
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781606352786
Additional Edition:
Print version Hooper, Candice Shy Lincoln's Generals' Wives : Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War--for Better and for Worse : Kent State University Press,c2016 ISBN 9781606352786
Language:
English
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