A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War (Young Readers' History of the Civil War)

Type

Book

Authors

Ina Chang

ISBN 10

0140381066

ISBN 13

9780140381061

Tags

History, Social Activists, Women, Civil War Period

Description

From slave women to abolitionists, fund raisers, spies, and even soldiers, courageous women such as Angelina Grimke, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Clara Barton played fascinating—and vital—roles in the Civil War. Drawing on diaries and letters and illustrated with vintage photographs. A Separate Battle reveals how women influenced the course of the Civil War—and transformed their own lives.“I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well. . . . And aren’t I a woman?”—Sojourner Truth An NCSS-CBS “Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.An ALA Notable Book - from Amzon

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