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This multilayered biography examines five remarkable women (Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Josepha Hale) who made important contributions to the Union cause before, during, and after the defining years of the American Civil War.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Elisabeth Griffith
Acknowledgments
1. The Better Angels of Our Nature
2. Women in Antebellum America
3. The Underground Railroad
4. Abolitionism in America
5. The “Seething Hell of War”
6. Noble Watchwords and Inspiring Ideas
7. Tending to the Wounded and Missing
8. The Prolonged War
9. “With Malice toward None, with Charity for All”
10. “Joy My Freedom!”
11. Women in Post–Civil War America
12. Concluding Remarkable Lives
13. The Angels among Us Still
14. “Contemplating Their Example”
15. Voce Angeli, or “Voices of the Angels”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Robert C. Plumb is a writer, historian, and former marketing executive for two Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of Your Brother in Arms: A Union Soldier’s Odyssey and has written for the Montgomery County Historical Society’s journal, the Washington Post, and the Washington Post Magazine. He lives outside Washington, DC.
Summary
This multilayered biography examines five remarkable women (Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Josepha Hale) who made important contributions to the Union cause before, during, and after the defining years of the American Civil War.
