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Title A woman's war : southern women, civil war, and the Confederate legacy / edited by Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr., and Kym S. Rice ; essays by Joan E. Cashin ... [et al.] ; with a foreword by Suzanne Lebsock
Publisher Richmond : Museum of the Confederacy ; Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, c1996
Edition 1st ed
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Ohioana Library  E628 .W9 1996    LIB USE ONLY
Table of Contents
 A Centennial Note 
 Foreword / Suzanne Lebsock 
 Preface 
 A Woman's War: Southern Women in the Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust, Thavolia Glymph, George C. Rable1
 Into the Trackless Wilderness: The Refugee Experience in the Civil War / Joan E. Cashin29
 "This Species of Property": Female Slave Contrabands in the Civil War / Thavolia Glymph55
 Voices from the Tempest: Southern Women's Wartime Experiences / Kym S. Rice, Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr.73
 A Monument to Southern Womanhood: The Founding Generation of the Confederate Museum / John M. Coski, Amy R. Feely131
 Divided Legacy: The Civil War, Tradition, and "the Woman Question," 1870-1920 / Majorie Spruill Wheeler165
 Notes192
 Suggestions for Further Reading219
 Suggestions for Further Research237
 Index248
 Notes on Contributors261
 Acknowledgments263
Subject Museum of the Confederacy (Richmond, Va.) -- Exhibitions
Women -- Confederate States of America -- Exhibitions
Women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women -- Exhibitions
Confederate States of America -- History -- Exhibitions
Add'l Author Campbell, Edward D. C., 1946-
Rice, Kym S
Cashin, Joan E
Museum of the Confederacy (Richmond, Va.)
Description xv, 264 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Edition 1st ed
Note "To accompany an exhibition organized by the Museum of the Confederacy on the occasion of its centennial."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-235) and index
Contents Southern women in the Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust, Thavolia Glymph, and George C. Rable -- Refugee experience in the Civil War / Joan E. Cashin -- Female slave contrabands in the Civil War / Thaviolia Glymph -- Southern women's wartime experiences / Kym S. Rice and Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr. -- Founding generation of the Confederate Museum / John M. Coski and Amy R. Feely -- Civil War, tradition, and "the woman question," 1870-1920 / Marjorie Spruill Wheeler
ISBN 0813917395 (paper)
OCLC # 36065935