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Contents: Special Issue: Women In The Civil War – Her War (Most women never fired a shot or risked their lives on a charge. Instead, they fought the Civil War on a front that Generals like William T. Sherman recognized as the most crucial one: the home front. Our pictorial essay offers a glimpse at the varied war experiences of different kinds of women); Washer Women (Wherever the army went, she went, too, taking along her unique weapons: tubs, scrub board, and soap. She was the army laundress, and she helped make soldier life bearable); She Voted With Her Voice (When Connecticut Republicans needed a speaker who could turn the tide in a tight election, they found that the right man for the job was a woman); Nurse Pember And The Whiskey War (A Confederate nurse holds off hoodlums at gunpoint when they demand the hospital’s whiskey); ‘Die Like A Damned Dog’ (In the North Carolina mountains, where war was personal and enemies were neighbors, one woman lost everything she loved in a few minutes); “Wilton, My Dear Old Home” (A confederate woman of Union-held Alexandria, Virginia, writes of hunger, plunderers, loyal slaves, and Mosby’s men in the winter of 1863); Life At The Edge Of War (The war moved back and forth past Meadow Farm in Glen Allen, Virginia, but spared the homestead for visitors from later generations); Behind The Lines; Letters; Reviews; News; Calendar; Gallery
Issue: August 1999
Condition: Very Good