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Author:

Women of war (2014)

Title:

Women of war : selected memoirs, poems, and fiction by Virginia women who lived through the Civil War / edited by Casey Clabough.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Texas Review Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiii, 158 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

American literature--Women authors.
American literature--19th century.
American literature--Virginia.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literary collections.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
United States--Women.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
Virginia--Biography.
American Civil War--(1861-1865)
American literature.
American literature--Women authors.
Women.
United States.
Virginia.
1800 - 1899
Biography.
History.
Literary collections.
Personal narratives--Confederate.

Other Authors:

Clabough, Casey, 1974- editor of compilation.

Contents:

Memoir. Mary Tucker Magill, "Introduction," from Woman, or, A chronicle of the late War (1867) -- Mary Lockett Avary, "Chapter IV: The realities of war," from A Virginia girl in the Civil War (1903) -- Mary Tucker Magill, "Chapter XIII: Rebel strategy resulting in the Battle of Kernstown" and "Chapter XXVI: A Southern woman thrown on her own resources," from Woman, or, A chronicle of the late War (1867) -- Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, "Chapter XIII: The Seven Days' Battles," from Reminiscences of peace and war (1904) -- Judith W. McGuire, "August 1864," from The diary of a Southern refugee, during the War / by a Lady of Virginia (1867) -- Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, "Chapter XXIII," from My day: reminiscences of a long lfe (1909) -- Sallie A. Brock Putnam, "Chapter LXXII: Evacuation of Richmond: burning of the city," from In Richmond during the War (1867) -- Poetry. Anonymous, "Virginia's message to the Southern states," from Southern poems of the War (1867) --
Anonymous, "Heart victories" / by a Soldier's wife, from Southern poems of the War (1867) -- Mrs. Makgabet Figoot, "A Mother's prayer," from Southern poems of the War (1867) -- Susan Archer Tally, "The Battle eve," from The Southern amaranth (1869) -- Anonymous, "The Soldier's grave," from Southern poems of the War (1867) -- Lines by his widow, "Mumford's grave," from The Southern amaranth (1869) -- Mrs. C. A. Ball, "The jacket of gray: to those who wore It," from Southern poems of the War (1867) -- Margaret J. Preston, "Virginia," from Beechenbrook: a rhyme of the War and other Civil War poems (1866) -- Fannie H. Marr, "Virginia," from Virginia and other poems (1881) -- Fannie H. Marr, "The captive" and "The South," from Heart-Life in song (1883) -- Mrs. Maie Dove Day, "The blended flags" and "War," from The blended flags (1898) -- Cornelia Jordan, "Richmond: her glory and her graves" and "A voice from the ground," from Echoes from the cannon (1899) --
Fiction. Marion Harland, "Chapter XVI," from Sunnybank (1867) -- Mary Spear Tiernan, "Chapter VIII: A study in gray," from Jack Horner (1890) -- Emma Lyon Bryan, "Chapter XXX," from 1860-1865: a romance of the valley (1892).

ISBN:

1937875490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781937875497 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)863801477

LCCN:

2013039500

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)