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Exploring gender relations during the Civil War, this book compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. It finds that rhetoric on both sides connected soldiers' reasons for fighting to the women left at home.
When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to Antoine Henri Jomini's classic military text, Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows, Jomini's work was only one voice in what ultimately became a lively and contentious national discourse about how the North should conduct war.
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