When the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confederate women would be innocent noncombatants. In this groundbreaking reconsideration of the Civil War, the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning invites us to see America’s bloodiest conflict not just as pitting brother against brother but as a woman’s war. We think of war as a man’s world, but women have always played active roles in times of violence and been left to pick up the pieces in societies decimated by war. “Readers expecting hoop-skirted ladies soothing fevered soldiers’ brows will not find them here… Explodes the fiction that men fight wars while women idle on the sidelines.”- The Washington Post “A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.”-David W.
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