Women in the Civil War

The Civil War wrought cataclysmic changes in the lives of American Women on both sides of the conflict. This book demonstrates their enterprise, fortitude, and fierceness. It focuses on many famous women, including Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Mother Bickerdyke, Pauline Cushman, Belle Boyd, Louisa May Alcott, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Chestnut.