Focusing on middle-class women's contributions to the northern
Civil War effort, Patricia Richard shows how women utilized their
power as moral agents to shape the way men survived the ravages of
war. Busy Hands investigates the ways in which white and African
American women used images of family and domestic life in their
relief efforts to counter the effects of prostitution, gambling,
profanity, and drinking, threatening men's postwar civilian
fitness.
Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs of Civil War nurses,
sanitary workers, soldiers, and the soldiers' aid societies,
Richard develops a new perspective on domestic influence on the
war, as women sought to save soldiers from the dangers of the
military world.
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