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  title info:
    title: Women's war
    sub title: fighting and surviving the American Civil War
  name:
    name part: McCurry, Stephanie
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: The Civil War is remembered as a war of brother against brother, with women standing innocently on the sidelines. But battlefield realities soon challenged this simplistic understanding of women's place in war. Stephanie McCurry shows that women were indispensable to the unfolding of the Civil War, as they have been, and continue to be, in all wars. With a trio of dramatic stories, McCurry explores unique facets of women's wartime experiences, each one of which played an important part in redefining the meaning and stakes of the Civil War. Clara Judd, a female spy who was imprisoned by the Union for treason, sparked a heated controversy over the principle of civilian immunity, leading to lasting changes in the international laws of war. The hundreds of thousands of enslaved women who escaped to Union lines during the conflict upended military emancipation policies aimed only at enslaved male soldiers. Union leaders responded by casting fugitive black women as "soldiers' wives," offering them a protection of sorts but placing a lasting obstacle on their path to freedom. In the war's aftermath, the former Confederate Gertrude Thomas wrestled with her loss of status amid economic devastation, social collapse and the new freedom of her former slaves. War and emancipation touched even her intimate family, revealing the full extent of the break in history Reconstruction represented.
  table of contents: Enemy women and the laws of war -- The story of the black soldier's wife -- Reconstructing a life amidst the ruins.
  note: Stephanie McCurry.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: n-usu--
    geographic code: n-us-ga
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Women
  subject:
    topic: Spies
    geographic: Confederate States of America
  subject:
    topic: Women spies
    geographic: Confederate States of America
  subject:
    topic: Women slaves
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Fugitive slaves
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Civil-military relations
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
    geographic: Georgia
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Influence
  classification: E628 .M35 2019
  classification: 973.7082
  identifier: 9780674987975
  identifier: 0674987977
  identifier: 2018045331
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180924
    record change date: 20190718165214.0
    record identifier: in00004077925