All Things Altered: Women in the Wake of Civil War and Reconstruction

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Few readers of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind remained unmoved by how the strong-willed Scarlett O’Hara tried to rebuild Tara after the Civil War ended. This book examines the problems that Southern women faced throughout the Reconstruction Era, in Part I as mothers, wives, daughters or sisters of men burdened with financial difficulties and the unconventional Republican regime, and in Part II with specific illustrations in their tribulations during the letters and diaries of five different women. A lonely widow with young children, Sally Randle Perry is struggling to get her life back together, following the death of her husband within the war. Virginia Caroline Smith Aiken, a wife and mother, born into affluence and security, struggles to emerge from the financial and psychological problems of the postwar world. Susan Darden, also a wife and mother, details the uncertainties and frustrations of her life in Fayette, Mississippi. Jo Gillis tells the unhappy tale of a young mother straining to deal with the depressed circumstances enveloping most ministers within the aftermath of the war. As the wife of a Methodist Episcopal minister within the Alabama Conference she sacrifices herself into an early grave in an try to further her husband’s career. Inability to gather a debt 3 times that of the $10,000 debt her father owed brought Anna Clayton Logan, her eleven brothers and sisters, and her parents face-to-face with starvation.

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