TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monson,Marianne
TI  - Women of the blue & gray: true Civil War stories of mothers, medics, soldiers, and spies 
SN  - 9781629724157
AV  - E628 .M67 2018
U1  - 973.7082B 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Shadow Mountain
KW  - Women
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Participation, Female
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 222); Rebels, inciters, and all-around revolutionaries -- The beardless brigade : Civil War soldiers -- Susie Baker King Taylor : Union nurse, teacher, and author -- Tales of smuggling, espionage, and general subterfuge -- Anna Ella Carroll : military strategist and political advisor -- Ink of the centuries : the diarists -- Cornelia Peake McDonald : mother and diarist -- Voices from slavery -- Mary Ann Shadd Cary : recruiter, newspaper editor, and abolitionist -- Arms to save : nurses, medics, and battlefield relief -- Dr. Mary Walker : Civil War surgeon and activist -- First nations in a divided nation -- Love in the time of dysentery -- Pathways to peace
N2  - "North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant--the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy, from tending to the wounded on the battlefield to spiriting away slaves through the Underground Railroad, from donning a uniform and fighting unrecognized alongside the men to working as spies for either side"--Dust jacket flap
ER  -