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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.
This volume offers a social historian's view of the Civil War,
shifting the focus away from political and military leaders to look
at how the war affected, and was affected by, ordinary citizens of
all kinds. Civil War: People and Perspectives looks at one of the
most convulsive events in American history through the eyes of
ordinary citizens, examining issues related to the home front and
war front across the full spectrum of racial, class, and gender
boundaries. Moving away from the traditional focus on famous
political and military figures, this insightful volume recounts the
experiences of soldiers, women and children, slaves and freed
persons, Native Americans, immigrants, and other social groups
during a time of extraordinary national upheaval. It is a revealing
look at how the lives of everyday people—Northern and Southern,
black and white, rich and poor, male and female, enslaved and
free—shaped and were shaped by the American Civil War.
Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare, including the use of
hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics, thrived in
localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the
Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive
overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in these conflicts,
from the Confederate-authorised Partisan Rangers, a military force
directed to spy on, harass, and steal from Union forces, to men
like John Gatewood, who deserted the Confederate army in favour of
targeting Tennessee civilians believed to be in sympathy with the
Union. With a foreword by Kenneth W. Noe and an afterword by Daniel
E. Sutherland, this collection represents an impressive array of
the foremost experts on guerrilla fighting in the Civil War.
Providing new interpretations of this long-misconstrued aspect of
warfare, these scholars go beyond the conventional battlefield to
examine the stories of irregular combatants across all theaters of
the Civil War, bringing geographic breadth to what is often treated
as local and regional history. The Guerrilla Hunters shows that
instances of unorthodox combat, once thought isolated and
infrequent, were numerous, and many clashes defy easy
categorisation. Novel methodological approaches and a staggering
diversity of research and topics allow this volume to support
multiple areas for debate and discovery within this growing field
of Civil War scholarship.
Household War restores the centrality of households to the American
Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard
distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and
civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at
the interplay of family and politics, studying the ways in which
the Civil War shaped and was shaped by the American household. They
explore how households influenced Confederate and Union military
strategy, the motivations of soldiers and civilians, and the
occupation of captured cities, as well as the experiences of Native
Americans, women, children, freedpeople, injured veterans, and
others. The result is a unique and much needed approach to the
study of the Civil War. Household War demonstrates that the Civil
War can be understood as a revolutionary moment in the
transformation of the household order. The original essays by
distinguished historians provide an inclusive examination of how
the war flowed from, required, and resulted in the restructuring of
the nineteenth-century household. Contributors explore notions of
the household before, during, and after the war, unpacking subjects
such as home, family, quarrels, domestic service and slavery,
manhood, the Klan, prisoners and escaped prisoners, Native
Americans, grief, and manhood. The essays further show how
households redefined and reordered themselves as a result of the
changes stemming from the Civil War.
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 recognized 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.
Household War restores the centrality of households to the American
Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard
distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and
civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at
the interplay of family and politics, studying the ways in which
the Civil War shaped and was shaped by the American household. They
explore how households influenced Confederate and Union military
strategy, the motivations of soldiers and civilians, and the
occupation of captured cities, as well as the experiences of Native
Americans, women, children, freedpeople, injured veterans, and
others. The result is a unique and much needed approach to the
study of the Civil War. Household War demonstrates that the Civil
War can be understood as a revolutionary moment in the
transformation of the household order. The original essays by
distinguished historians provide an inclusive examination of how
the war flowed from, required, and resulted in the restructuring of
the nineteenth-century household. Contributors explore notions of
the household before, during, and after the war, unpacking subjects
such as home, family, quarrels, domestic service and slavery,
manhood, the Klan, prisoners and escaped prisoners, Native
Americans, grief, and manhood. The essays further show how
households redefined and reordered themselves as a result of the
changes stemming from the Civil War.
This fascinating work tells the untold story of the role of women
in the Civil War, from battlefield to home front. Except for those
named Harriet - Tubman and Beecher Stowe, to be precise - women are
invisible in Civil War history. The traditional treatment focuses
on the men who directed and fought the war. This encyclopedia lifts
the curtain on the untold stories of women as warriors, spies,
fundraisers, and propagandists - the whole range of war-related
activity. Most Americans can name famous generals and notable
battles from the Civil War. With rare exception, they know neither
the women of that war nor their part in it. Yet, as this
encyclopedia demonstrates, women played a critical role. The book's
400 A-Z entries focus on specific people, organizations, issues,
and battles, and a dozen contextual essays provide detailed
information about the social, political, and family issues that
shaped women's lives during the Civil War era. Women in the
American Civil War satisfies a growing interest in this topic.
Readers will learn how the Civil War became a vehicle for expanding
the role of women in society. Representing the work of more than
100 scholars, this book treats in depth all aspects of the
previously untold story of women in the Civil War.
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