Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
- List Price: $15.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Vintage Books USA
- Publish date: 09/01/1997
Description:
From hundreds of diaries, letters, and memoirs of the period, historian Drew Gilpin Faust reveals how war changed the lives of Southern women forever--from a housewife having to do physical labor for the first time to a Virginia aristocrat turned military nurse to a ruthless teenaged girl spy. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, and Winner of the Avery Craven Prize. 40 b&w photos throughout.
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