Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front

by Judith Giesberg

Book Overview

Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own.

Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As they became more active in their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807872636
• ISBN13: 9780807872635
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"