TY - BOOK AU - McCurry,Stephanie TI - Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War SN - 9780674239920 AV - E628 U1 - 973.7082 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Civil-military relations KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Fugitive slaves KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - Georgia KW - Spies KW - Confederate States of America KW - Women slaves KW - Women spies KW - HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Prologue --; 1. Enemy Women and the Laws of War --; 2. The Story of the Black Soldier’s Wife --; 3. Reconstructing a Life amid the Ruins --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674239920 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674239920 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674239920.jpg ER -