Women of Missouri in the Civil War

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General William Tecumseh Sherman said of Confederate womanhood: “You women are the toughest set I ever knew. The men would have given up long ago but for you. I imagine you would keep this war up for thirty years.”

Yet unlike many collections penned for the Daughters of the Confederacy, this book has a conciliatory tone. Yes, it includes accounts of suffering and bitterness. But the preface states the authors “do not desire to keep alive sectional bitterness or revive memories which have lain dormant for half a century.”

What they did intend was once to record the sacrifices and efforts made by women of the south all the way through the war. Some of the moving sections of the book is at the end. This can be a first-hand recounting of the gathering at the field of Gettysburg of the veterans of both sides, fifty years after the battle.

Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with any other view of the catastrophe that changed the country eternally.

For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is to be had as an inexpensive, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones.

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