Women In Civil War Texas. Diversity And Dissidence In The Trans-Mississippi

LILES, DEBORAH M AND ANGELA BOSWELL [EDITED BY]

Publication: University of North Texas Press, 2016, Denton

First edition. 8vo. Maroon cloth, titles stamped in silver on the spine, xiv, 297 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated, maps, notes on contributors, index. An interesting study where several contributors explore Texas women and their support for secession and the Confederacy in the Civil War, coping with their husband's absences, and the importance of letter-writing as a means of keeping families connected, and how pro-Union sentiment caused difficulties. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.