The Better Angels : Five Women Who Changed Civil War America /

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"This multi-layered biography examines five remarkable women who made important contributions to the Union cause at various stages before, during, and following the defining years of the American Civil War"--

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Plumb, Robert C. (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Griffith, Elisabeth (writer of foreword.)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Women and war.
Women.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Femmes et guerre > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Women and war > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women > Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1 The Better Angels of Our Nature
  • 2 Women in Antebellum America
  • 3 The Underground Railroad
  • 4 Abolitionism in America
  • 5 The "Seething Hell of War"
  • 6 Noble Watchwords and Inspiring Ideas
  • 7 Tending to the Wounded and Missing
  • 8 The Prolonged War
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • 9 "With Malice toward None, with Charity for All"
  • 10 "Joy My Freedom!"
  • 11 Women in Post-Civil War America
  • 12 Concluding Remarkable Lives
  • 13 The Angels among Us Still
  • 14 "Contemplating Their Example"
  • 15 Voce Angeli, or "Voices of the Angels"
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.

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