Intimate Strategies of the Civil War (eBook, PDF)

Military Commanders and Their Wives
Redaktion: Bleser, Carol K.; Gordon, Lesley J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From Robert E. and Mary Lee to Ulysses S. and Julia Grant, Intimate Strategies of the Civil War examines the marriages of twelve prominent military commanders, highlighting the impact wives had on their famous husbands' careers. Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon assemble an impressive array of leading scholars to explore the marriages of six Confederate and six Union commanders. Contributors reveal that, for many of these men, the matrimonial bond was the most important relationship in their lives, one that shaped (and was shaped by) their military experience. In some cases, the commanders' spouses proved relentless and skillful promoters of their husbands' careers. Jessie Fr?mont drew on all of her connections as the daughter of former Senator Thomas Hart Benton to aid her modestly talented husband John. Others bolstered their military spouses in less direct ways. For example, Ulysses S. Grant's relationship with Julia (a Southerner and former slave owner herself) kept him anchored in stormy times. Here, too, are tense and tempestuous pairings, such William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen--his foster sister before becoming his wife--and Jefferson Davis's fascinatingly complex bond with Varina, further complicated by the hostile rumors about the two in Richmond society. Throughout, these historians paint remarkably intimate portraits of their subjects. Readers will see these famed men in a way that they perhaps never considered: not merely as famous leaders, but as lovers, husbands and fathers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198027492
• Artikelnr.: 38151760

Autorenporträt

Carol K. Bleser is Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at Clemson University and former president of the Southern Historical Association and the Southern Association of Women Historians. Her books include The Hammonds of Redcliffe, Tokens of Affection, Secret and Sacred, and In Joy and In Sorrow. Lesley J. Gordon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Akron, and is the author of General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part One: Confederate Marriages
* 1: Carol K. Bleser: The Marriage Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis: A
Portrait of the President and the First Lady of Confederacy
* 2: Emory M. Thomas: The Lee Marriage
* 3: Sarah Gardner: A Sweet Solace to my Lonely Heart: Stonewall and
Mary Anna Jackson and the Civil War
* 4: Lesley J. Gordon: Cupid does not readily give way to Mars: The
Marriage of LaSalle Corbell and George E. Pickett
* 5: Peter S. Carmichael: All say they are under petticoat government:
Lizinka Campbell Brown and Richard S. Ewell
* 6: Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins.: The Marriage of Amelia Gayle and Josiah
Gorgas
* Part Two: Union Marriages
* 7: John Y. Simon: A Marriage Tested by War: Ulysses and Julia Grant
* 8: John F. Marszalek: General and Mrs. William T Sherman, A
Contentious Union
* 9: Jennifer Lund Smith: The Reconstruction of Home: The Civil War and
the Marriage of Fannie and Lawrence Chamberlain
* 10: Shirley A. Leckie: The Civil War Partnership of Elizabeth and
George A. Custer
* 11: Pamela Herr: Permutations of a Marriage: John Charles and Jessie
Benton Fremont's Civil War Alliance
* 12: Virginia Jeans Laas: A Good Wife, the Best Friend in the World:
The Marriage of Elizabeth Blair and S. Phillips Lee