Women in Civil War Texas : diversity and dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Liles, Debbie M. (Editor), Boswell, Angela, 1965- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Denton : University of North Texas Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Texas > History > Civil War, 1861-1865. Women > Texas > History > 19th century. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women. Women pioneers > Texas.

Table of Contents:

"Everyone has the war fever": Anglo Texan women prepare for secession and war / Vicki Betts
Caroline Sedberry, politician's wife: an ordinary woman in extraordinary times / Dorothy Ewing
He said, she said: gendered correspondence among Texans / Beverly Rowe
Finding joy through hard times: Texas women's recreation during the Civil War / Brittany Bounds
Black Texas women and the freedom war / Bruce A. Glasrud
Black women and Supreme Court decisions during the Civil War era / Linda S. Hudson
Mexican-Texan women in the Civil War / Jerry Thompson and Elizabeth Mata
Courage on a Texas frontier: German Texas Unionist women on the Civil War homefront / Judith Dykes-Hoffman
"In favor of our fathers' country and government:" Unionist women in north Texas / Rebecca Sharpless
"They call us all renegades in Tyler": elite refugee women in Civil War Texas / Candice N. Shockley
Not your typical Southern belles: women on the western frontier of Texas / Deborah M. Liles.