Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition

by Judith Giesberg

Book Overview

The Civil War-era U.S. Sanitary Commission (USSC) was the largest wartime benevolent institution. Judith Ann Giesberg demonstrates convincingly that that generation of women provided a crucial link between the local evangelical crusades of the early nineteenth century and the sweeping national reform and suffrage movements of the postwar period.

Drawing on Sanitary Commission documents and memoirs, the author details how northern elite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555536581
• ISBN13: 9781555536589
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher