Confederate Reckoning by Stephanie McCurry

She is lamentably and undeniably right that where women and war are concerned.but perhaps this book will make forgetting a little more difficult. In sum, the book’s chief takeaway is that the Civil War and emancipation constituted genuine revolutions whose true radicalness women helped cause and that we can fully see only when we write histories of war with women included.

Before the Civil War, no systematic legal guidelines governed armies’ treatment of noncombatants. Confederate Reckoning tells the little known story of the effect southern women and slaves had on the outcome of the Civil War. The book lands its strongest blows in the chapter about the Lieber Code. by Stephanie McCurry First published in 1995 3 editions in 1 language 1 previewable Borrow Listen. Thomas’s individual misfortunes notwithstanding, the chapter’s bold claims about the downfall of the planter class are tough to sustain in light of hard evidence that the planter class endured a momentary stumble rather than a permanent fall. Author of Masters of Small Worlds, Confederate reckoning, Womens War, Womens War, Confederate reckoning, Confederate reckoning, Womens War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War. The chapter about Gertrude Thomas and her family’s precipitous fall helps us notice things we might otherwise miss about the meaning of emancipation and the wild contingency of the war’s end, when nobody knew how things would turn out. She is the author of Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. When the grandiosity of Southerners national ambitions met the. McCurry makes.broad points crystal clear, even as she raises questions on finer ones. Stephanie McCurry Stephanie McCurry is a professor of history at Columbia University. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience.

Confederate Reckoning by Stephanie McCurry