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Cargando... Patriots in Disguise: Women Warriors of the Civil Warpor Richard Hall
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is one book in my large collection about imposters. The book was entertaining. The author's writing style is not stilted or academic. Like too many books of its kind, it is very poorly documented. In his notes the author claims that he "did not want to be a party to reporting fiction as fact, or to help to develop a mythology about women in the Civil War" and then proceeds to do exactly that. There is only a selected bibliography. There are notes in the back of the book for each chapter but, if you check the author's sources, background historical information about battles or local history come from well-researched sources but specific facts about individual women tend to come from sources even more poorly documented than this book. In his notes on Loreta Janeta Velazquez he admits that the evidence is circumstantial. He also states in the notes that when he did check primary sources he found major discrepancies. ( ) This is one book in my large collection about imposters. The book was entertaining. The author's writing style is not stilted or academic. Like many books of its kind, it is very poorly documented. In his notes the author claims that he "did not want to be a party to reporting fiction as fact, or to help to develop a mythology about women in the Civil War" and then proceeds to do exactly that. There is only a selected bibliography. There are notes in the back of the book for each chapter but, if you check the author's sources, background historical information about battles or local history come from well-researched sources but specific facts about individual women tend to come from sources even more poorly documented than this book. In his notes on Loreta Janeta Velazquez he admits that the evidence is circumstantial. He also states in the notes that when he did check primary sources he found major discrepancies. Too much space is taken up with women who were no more in disguise than I am--nurses, Daughters of the Regiment--and with women whose stories are, at best, highly suspect. The author has attempted to verify as much of these latter type as possible, but we are talking about a guy who also "researches" UFOs, which makes me leery . On the up side, he provides a very useful list of known female soldiers, by state and unit, and there's an interesting section on how some were caught out. He also points out, convincingly, that there were probably many more women who succeeded in serving as soldiers than we will ever know about. A little dry initially, the book turns out to be a fair read overall. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
To many minds the question of women in combat is a particularly modern problem; the recent Gulf War seems to have brought the question to a head for the first time. But, as Richard Hall shows in this eye-opening history, women have been distinguishing themselves on the battlefield for far longer than has been acknowledged in the history books. There were women who went to the Civil War as nurses, "daughters of the regiment," or vivandieres, and those who went disguised as men, but when the fighting began such distinctions were lost and the women would adapt to whatever role was necessary. Many went to be with their boyfriends or husbands, some went out of patriotism, others purely for the adventure. In addition to donning a uniform and cutting their hair, these women often "learned to drink, smoke, chew, and swear with the best, or worst of the soldiers." The wife of one Colonel Turchin even assumed command of a regiment after her husband had been wounded.
Some of the other women covered in this ground-breaking account include Jennie Hodgers, the longest serving woman, completed a three-year term of enlistment serving as Albert Cashier. It wasn't until 1911 when she was hurt in an automobile accident, that her identity and sex were discovered; Sarah Emma Edmonds probably had the busiest Civil War. She served as private Franklin Thompson in the 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment, then as a spy disguised variously as a black man and Irish biddy. Later, when Sarah contracted malaria, Franklin deserted. After recuperating, she wrote Nurse and Spy, a fictionalized account of her adventures as if experienced by a female nurse. The book was a huge success.
She resumed the war effort as a female nurse and met Linus Seelye, whom she married after the war's end; Lucy Matilda Thompson joined the Confederate forces when already aged 49, and, although she received two shrapnel wounds to her skull resulting in a metal plate being permanently attached, lived to the incredible age of 112; Loreta Janeta Velazquez, born to a wealthy Cuban family and raised in New Orleans, fought in the battle of First Bull Run as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford. Her adventures continued as she worked as a spy, becoming a double agent and even being enlisted by Union forces to capture herself.
. Researched from primary source material - memoirs, diaries, letters and old records - this is the first book to fully investigate the role of women exposed to combat conditions in the Civil War. Illustrated with photographs that show women in uniform, this work authoritatively documents a new chapter in Civil War history. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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