Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss
(Part of the Civil War America Series)
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Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In Love and Duty, Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials--as well as songs, literary works, and material objects like mourning gowns--to explore white Confederate widows' stories, examining the records of their courtships, marriages, loves, and losses...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1469667738
ISBN13:9781469667737
Release Date:April 2022
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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