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Drawing the words from diaries, letters, and other sources, Culpepper (retired, Michigan State U.) provides a window on the American Civil War through the eyes of a varying group of women. Among the experiences detailed are the practice of blockade running off the coast of North Carolina; the life of academia in Columbia, South Carolina; the life an itinerant refugee during wartime; and the contested animosities and sympathies of Confederate and Union women in the front-line city of Winchester, Virginia. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Presented here are excerpts from diaries and letters written by Southern women from different walks of life and areas of the country. Mary White, a fifteen-year-old girl, attempted to get through the blockade in Wilmington, North Carolina; Nancy Jones lived in fear amid the violence that rocked Missouri and saw her close friends and family murdered and her young son taken prisoner by the Yankees; Sarah Dandridge Duval and her family were refugees living near Richmond, Virginia. The book includes personal reminiscences from Union and Confederate women living in Winchester, Virginia, a town that reportedly changed hands 76 times during the war, and the reactions of Southern women to the surrender at Appomattox.
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