Yankee Women

by Leonard, Elizabeth D

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New York: W.W. Norton Gender Battles in the Civil War. Dust jacket has a mylar cover, all very good condition. CR 1994, 308 with index, notes and bibliography. Photos at beginning of chapters. Yankee women are portrayed in the multiple ways they devoted themselves to the Union. Mainly about Sophronia Bucklin, Annie Wittenmyer, and Mary Walker; and their daily manifestation of their wartime service. Bucklin traveled to front lines to nurse the wounded and ill. Wittenmyer organized committees to supply goods for the troops in Iowa, setting up orphanages and creating special diet kitchens for the sick soldiers, and Mary Walker became the only woman to sign a contract as a doctor for the Union Forces.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover.