NF A Woman's War

[major bill]

Hung out at a couple of used book stores today. Not many books about uniforms so I purchased a couple of general interest books about the Civil War. So if anyone has read this should I put it on my to read list or on my hope to read someday list? My problem is it is to help understand a Museum of the Confederacy exhibition. The book looks informative but if I like the book I will be sad I missed the exhibition.

 

[mofederal]

This sounds like an interesting book, but I have never read it. Maybe someone here has. I know that feeling, missing exhibits. I have done that before. Thanks for posting.

 

[MaryDee]

Should be interesting. I've read Drew Gilpin Faust's Mothers of Invention which is supposed to be the modern classic on southern women in the Civil War.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

From University Press of Virginia, 1996. Review from " Southern Culture " site. Amazon gives these authors; Edward D. C. Campbell Jr. (Author),‎ Kim S. Rice (Author),‎ Suzanne Lebsock .

http://www.southerncultures.org/art...ted-edward-d-c-campbell-jr-kym-s-rice-review/

" The women who founded what is now known as the Museum of the Confederacy in 1896 had a rule that they almost always adhered to: that while they would work endlessly to preserve the memory of the Confederate Cause and the men who fought for it, they would allow no pictures of the Confederate women, and certainly none of themselves, to be hung on the walls of the museum in commemoration of their own contributions to the war and its remembrance. In their centennial exhibit and accompanying text, A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate Legacy, the current administration of the museum has chosen to break with this aspect of Confederate Memorial Tradition. They put together an exhibit and commissioned historical essays that present the Civil War as a woman's war, and not only as the war of the elite white women, such as those who founded the museum, but as a war of the common women of the South, both white and black, as well. This was an ambitious undertaking and, as the director of the museum, Robin Edward Reed, notes in his introduction, a potentially controversial one. The result is a volume of insightful essays, which through their varied approaches to the Civil War as a woman's war, do indeed confront controversial issues of race, class, and gender in ways that move the entire field forward. "

 

[major bill]

Should be interesting. I've read Drew Gilpin Faust's Mothers of Invention which is supposed to be the modern classic on southern women in the Civil War.

Some where in my attic I have the Mothers of Invention album Weasels Ripped My Flesh. I always liked Frank Zappa. They must be a differnt kind of Mothers of Invention.

 

[gary]

I'm reading Burton's Siege of Charleston and never realized that all those sandbags used at Battery Wagner and at Fort Sumter were supplied by the women of Charleston. The war in Charleston could not have been waged without the support or encouragement of the Southern women there. They also raised money for an ironclad.

 

[Klaudly]

Captain Sally L. Tompkins, the only female officer in civil war. Form THE RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH july 26, 1916:
"Captain Sally Louisa Tompkins, 83 years old, died yesterday of chronic nephritis at 8:45 o'clock in the morning, in the Home for Confederate Women. The funeral, with full military honors, will take place in Mathews County in the graveyard of the church which her sister, Miss Elizabeth Tompkins, helped to establish in 1841".