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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 02 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Teri Schnaubelt. |
| Summary |
In this groundbreaking reconsideration of the Civil War, the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning invites us to see America's bloodiest conflict not just as pitting brother against brother but as a woman's war. When the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confederate women would be innocent noncombatants. Experience soon challenged this simplistic belief. Stephanie McCurry reveals the vital and sometimes confounding roles women played on and off the battlefield. We meet Clara Judd, a Confederate spy whose imprisonment for treason sparked heated controversy, defying the principle of civilian immunity and leading to lasting changes in the laws of war. Hundreds of thousands of enslaved women escaped across Union lines, upending emancipation policies that extended only to enslaved men. The Union's response was to classify fugitive black women as "soldiers' wives," regardless of whether they were married-offering them some protection but placing new obstacles on their path to freedom. In the war's aftermath, the Confederate grande dame Gertrude Thomas wrestled with her loss of status and of her former slaves. War, emancipation, and economic devastation affected her family intimately, and through her life McCurry helps us see how fundamental the changes of Reconstruction were. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
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Spies -- Confederate States of America.
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Women spies -- Confederate States of America.
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Enslaved women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Civil-military relations -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Georgia.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
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Schnaubelt, Teri.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781977350435 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1977350437 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12314551 |
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