Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss

by Angela Esco Elder

Book Overview

Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In Love and Duty, Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials--as well as songs, literary works, and material objects like mourning gowns--to explore white Confederate widows' stories, examining the records of their courtships, marriages, loves, and losses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469667738
• ISBN13: 9781469667737
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"