| Title | : | Civil War Wives |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Carol Berkin |
| Release | : | 2009-09-08 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | U.S. History, Books, History, Nonfiction, Social Science |
| Size | : | 8948586 |
| In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding women's experiences and voices to their male counterparts. |
