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When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women... Read Full Overview

"I read with unanticipated fascination, spellbound by the gathered voices, their passion and stamina, their gifts of introspection and observation .... (Faust looks) directly at the past, with a daughter's hard, steady gaze, and with a daughter's generous heart". -- Josephine... Read Full Overview