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Daughters of the Union Northern Women Fight the Civil War
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By Nina Silber
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(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 332. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95).
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| There has been a recent flourishing of books on women's experiences in the U.S. Civil War. Nurses' letters have appeared, the work of female spies has been recounted, and historians have even recovered women's experiences on the battlefield. As Nina Silber notes in Daughters of the Union, Confederate women's work has long been more famous than that of their Unionist counterparts, a bias that started during the war itself. But Northern women are now getting their due, in books like Jeannie Attie's Patriotic Toil (1998), Judith Ann Giesberg's Civil War Sisterhood (2000), and Elizabeth Leonard's Yankee Women (1994). |
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