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The Civilian War - Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Sherman's March (Hardcover)
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The Civilian War - Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Sherman's March (Hardcover)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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The Civilian War explores home front encounters between elite
Confederate women and Union soldiers during Sherman's March, a
campaign that put women at the center of a Union army operation for
the first time. Ordered to crush the morale as well as the military
infrastructure of the Confederacy, Sherman and his army
increasingly targeted wealthy civilians in their progress through
Georgia and the Carolinas. To drive home the full extent of
northern domination over the South, Sherman's soldiers besieged the
female domain-going into bedrooms and parlors, seizing
correspondence and personal treasures-with the aim of insulting and
humiliating upper-class southern women. These efforts blurred the
distinction between home front and warfront, creating
confrontations in the domestic sphere as a part of the war itself.
Historian Lisa Tendrich Frank argues that ideas about women and
their roles in war shaped the expectations of both Union soldiers
and Confederate civilians. Sherman recognised that slaveholding
Confederate women played a vital part in sustaining the Rebel
efforts, and accordingly he treated them as wartime opponents,
targeting their markers of respectability and privilege. Although
Sherman intended his efforts to demoralize the civilian population,
Frank suggests that his strategies frequently had the opposite
effect. Confederate women accepted the plunder of food and
munitions as an inevitable part of the conflict, but they
considered Union invasion of their private spaces an unforgivable
and unreasonable transgression. These intrusions strengthened the
resolve of many southern women to continue the fight against the
Union and its most despised general. Seamlessly merging gender
studies and military history, The Civilian War illuminates the
distinction between the damage inflicted on the battlefield and the
offenses that occurred in the domestic realm during the Civil War.
Ultimately, Frank's research demonstrates why many women in the
Lower South remained steadfastly committed to the Confederate cause
even when their prospects seemed most dim.
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