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03261aim a2200385Ia 4500 001 E2E4C0C8207F11E59F296EB6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150702010207 008 141114s2015 nyu nn h n eng d 020 $a 1481534750 020 $a 9781481534758 028 53 $a ZEbi0y $b Blackstone Audio 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d BDX $d L@L $d OCLCO $d SILO 082 04 $a 973.7082 $2 23 100 1 $a Roberts, Cokie. $0 (local)91324 245 10 $a Capital dames (Book on CD) : $b the Civil War and the women of Washington, 1848-1868 / $c Cokie Roberts. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a New York : $b Blackstone Audio, $c p2015. 300 $a 12 sound discs (14 hr., 30 min.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 511 0 $a Narrated by the author. 520 $a With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern town of Washington, D.C. found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States. After the declaration of secession, many fascinating Southern women left the city, leaving their friends- such as Adele Cutts Douglas and Elizabeth Blair Lee- to grapple with questions of safety and sanitation as the capital was transformed into an immense Union army camp and later a hospital. With their husbands, brothers, and fathers marching off to war, either on the battlefield or in the halls of Congress, the women of Washington joined the cause as well. And more women went to the Capital City to enlist as nurses, supply organizers, relief workers, and journalists. Many risked their lives making munitions in a highly flammable arsenal, toiled at the Treasury Department printing greenbacks to finance the war, and plied their needlework skills at The Navy Yard- once the sole province of men- to sew canvas gunpowder bags for the troops. Cokie Roberts chronicles these women's increasing independence, their political empowerment, their indispensable role in keeping the Union unified through the war, and in helping heal it once the fighting was done. She concludes that the war not only changed Washington, it also forever changed the place of women. Sifting through newspaper articles, government records, and private letters and diaries'many never before published'Roberts brings the war-torn capital into focus through the lives of its formidable women. 650 0 $a Women $z Washington (D.C.) $v Biography. $0 (local)194788 650 0 $a Politicians' spouses $z Washington (D.C.) $v Biography. $0 (local)194789 650 0 $a Women $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. $0 (local)194790 650 0 $a Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) $v Biography. $0 (local)194791 650 0 $a Women $z United States $x History $y 19th century. $0 (local)91328 651 0 $a United States $x Women. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Women. $0 (local)99308 651 0 $a Washington (D.C.) $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865. $0 (local)99818 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $v Biography. $0 (local)99815 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 1815-1861 $v Biography. $0 (local)127011 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft $0 (local)3250 941 $a 1 945 $a cda 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20150702011310.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E2E4C0C8207F11E59F296EB6DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search