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 in 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. Publisher’s Summary: Hidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes-women. Monson captures these women in vivid historical scenes, showing how black women in particular accomplished so much, even as those in power thought them incapable of doing so,” said Meredith Grahl Counts in her review for. “The book covers women who flouted norms to participate in the war, both publicly and privately: as abolitionists, medics, spies, teachers, and even as soldiers. While it is no surprise that in the early 1800’s women were not supposed to hold political views, it is equally no surprise that some women didn’t particularly care about that gender social code explained Marianne Monson in Women of the Blue & Gray: True Civil War Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies.
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