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Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss - Civil War America Angela Esco Elder
Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss - Civil War America
Angela Esco Elder
Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In Love and Duty, Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials to explore white Confederate widows’ stories.
240 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 26, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9781469667737 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 521 g |
| Language | English |