Busy Hands : Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort / Patricia Richard.
Richard, Patricia, author.
2022
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Title Busy Hands : Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort / Patricia Richard.
Author Richard, Patricia, author.
ISBN 9780823295210
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295210
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2004
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (335 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823295210 doi
Summary Focusing on middle-class women's contributions to the northern Civil War effort, Patricia Richard shows how women utilized their power as moral agents to shape the way men survived the ravages of war. Busy Hands investigates the ways in which white and African American women used images of family and domestic life in their relief efforts to counter the effects of prostitution, gambling, profanity, and drinking, threatening men's postwar civilian fitness. Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs of Civil War nurses, sanitary workers, soldiers, and the soldiers' aid societies, Richard develops a new perspective on domestic influence on the war, as women sought to save soldiers from the dangers of the military world.
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Series The North's Civil War
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780823223008
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
1. The Moral Source: The Family During the Civil War
2. Corruption Abounds: Reactions to the Soldier's Life
3. "In a Most Tangible Form": Northern Women Respond to the Nurturing Needs of the Civil War Soldier
4. "Listen Ladies One and All": Soldiers Search for the Comforts of Home Through Correspondence Ads
5. The Communal Contract: Northern Women Care for the Union Family Through Aid Societies
6. "The Kind Attentions of Woman": Female Nurses Bring Home to the Hospital
7 The Soldiers' Home and the Journey Homeward
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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