Such Anxious Hours: Wisconsin Women's Voices from the Civil War
Such Anxious Hours: Wisconsin Women's Voices from the Civil War
edited by Jo Ann Daly Carr
University of Wisconsin Press, 2020 eISBN: 978-0-299-32428-5 | Cloth: 978-0-299-32420-9 Library of Congress Classification E601.S94 2019 Dewey Decimal Classification 973.7082
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Letters from soldiers to their families often provide prominent narratives of the Civil War. But what about the messages from the women who maintained homes and farmsteads alone, all while providing significant emotional support to their loved ones at the front? The letters and diaries of these eight women echo the ever-growing horrors of the conflict and reveal the stories of the Wisconsin home front. Twenty-one-year-old Emily Quiner sought a way to join the war effort that would feed her heart and mind. Annie Cox wrote to her pro-slavery fiancé to staunchly defend her abolitionist principles. Sisters Susan Brown and Ann Waldo faced the unexpected devastation that each battle brought to families.
In Such Anxious Hours, Jo Ann Daly Carr places this material in historical context, detailing what was happening simultaneously in the nation, state, and local communities. Civil War history enthusiasts will appreciate these enlightening perspectives that demonstrate the variety of experiences in the Midwest during the bloody conflict.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jo Ann Daly Carr is a librarian and director emerita of Media, Education Resources, and Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Introduction: April 13, 1861 3
1 April 1861 to April 1862 9
2 May 1862 to April 1863 82
3 May 1863 to April 1864 120
4 May 1864 to April 1865 196
Aftermath of War: April 16, 1865 291
Notes 301
Bibliography 325
Index 333
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