An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front

From: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front. Edited by PAUL A. CIMBALA and RANDALL M. MILLER. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. xxii, 362 pp. $45.00.

PERHAPS because my own scholarly work initially focused on bringing the story of women's involvement in the Civil War to light, when I first sat down to read An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front, I assumed its pages would be filled with essays on, well, women. To me, that is what the phrase "home front" has always implied: the physical space in which the bulk of (Civil War) women's wartime work took ...

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