Women of War: Selected Memoirs, Poems, and Fiction by Virginia Women Who Lived Through the Civil War

By Casey Clabough In rare and rediscovered excerpts these women writers evidence the early hopes of a cause destined to be lost, the propagandic rhetoric which accompanied it, and the destruction ultimately visited upon them, their homes, and their families. Women of War brings to light a cornucopia of heretofore obscure women’s writings which enrich our understanding of a complex, unsettling time unmatched in our nation’s history. Paperback 158