Winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award “A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.” —David W. Blight, author of Frederick

In a study that will radically shift our understanding of Civil War literature, Elizabeth Young shows that American women writers have been profoundly influence

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the benefici

"In a series of eight paired essays, scholars compare the experiences of Northern and Southern women in the U.S. Civil War"--

As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women