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  title info:
    title: Behind the rifle
    sub title: women soldiers in Civil War Mississippi
  name:
    name part: Harriel, Shelby
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: msu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: During the Civil War, Mississippi's strategic location bordering the Mississippi River and the state's system of railroads drew the attention of opposing forces who clashed in major battles for control over these resources. The names of these engagements, Vicksburg, Jackson, Port Gibson, Corinth, Iuka, Tupelo and Brice's Crossroads, along with the narratives of the men who fought there resonate in Civil War literature. However, Mississippi's chronicle of military involvement in the Civil War is not one of men alone. Surprisingly, there were a number of female soldiers disguised as males who stood shoulder to shoulder with them on the firing lines across the state. Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi is a groundbreaking study that discusses women soldiers with a connection to Mississippi, either those who hailed from the Magnolia State or those from elsewhere who fought in Mississippi battles. Readers will learn who they were, why they chose to fight at a time when military service for women was banned and the horrors they experienced. Included are two maps and over twenty period photographs of locations relative to the stories of these female fighters along with images of some of the women themselves. The product of over ten years of research, this work provides new details of formerly recorded female fighters, debunks some cases and introduces over twenty previously undocumented ones. Among these are women soldiers who were involved in such battles beyond Mississippi as Shiloh, Antietam and Gettysburg. Readers will also find new documentation regarding female fighters held as prisoners of war in such notorious prisons as Andersonville.
  table of contents: Motivations -- Women as soldiers in the field and prisoners of war: their hardships -- Paying the price: women soldiers killed and wounded in action -- Mississippi's women soldiers -- Corinth and Iuka -- Mississippi central railroad campaign to Holly Springs -- Chickasaw Bayou -- Port Gibson to big black -- The May assaults -- The siege of Vicksburg -- Natchez and the siege of Jackson -- Brice's crossroads and Tupelo.
  note: Shelby Harriel.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Women soldiers
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Participation, Female
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Women
  classification: E628 .H376 2019
  classification: 973.7/408209762
  identifier: 9781496822017
  identifier: 1496822013
  identifier: 2018041165
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180905
    record change date: 20190718163032.0
    record identifier: in00004059022