Such Anxious Hours: Wisconsin Women's Voices from the Civil War

Book Overview

Letters from soldiers to their families often provide prominent narratives of the Civil War. But what about the messages from the women who maintained homes and farmsteads alone, all while providing significant emotional support to their loved ones at the front? The letters and diaries of these eight women echo the ever-growing horrors of the conflict and reveal the stories of the Wisconsin home front. Twenty-one-year-old Emily Quiner sought a way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299324206
• ISBN13: 9780299324209
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"