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(New York: Knopf, 1991), 269–92, 305–16; Jerome A. Greene and Douglas D. Scott,
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(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), 18; Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff,
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(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 252–53.

32
. John Y. Simon, “That Obnoxious Order,” in
Jews and the Civil War: A Reader
, ed. Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 353–61; Jean Edward Smith,
Grant
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), 225–27;
Journal of the Senate of the United States, Begun and Held at the City of Washington, December 1, 1862
(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1863), 78; Rosen,
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, 162–63.

33
. Thomas S. Edrington and John Taylor,
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(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998), 7–8, 28.

34
. Simpson,
A Good Southerner
, 224–25; Lincoln, “Speech from the Balcony of the Bates House at Indianapolis, Indiana,” February 11, 1861, and “Annual Message to Congress,” December 1, 1862, in
Collected Works
, 4:195, 5:527–28.

35
. LeAnn Whites, “The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender,” in
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, ed. Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 7, 11.

36
. Rosemarie Zagarri,
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(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 166–67.

37
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(Boston: T. H. Webb, 1843), 26; Toby Ditz,
Property and Kinship: Inheritance in Early Connecticut, 1750–1820
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986), 119; Catharine Clinton,
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(New York: Hill and Wang, 1984), 12–19; Suzanne Lebsock,
The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784–1800
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1984), 100–104.

38
. Charlotte S. Hilbourne,
Effie and I: or, Seven Years in a Cotton Mill
(Cambridge, MA: Allen and Farnham, 1863), 67.

39
. Sara Josepha Hale, “Home,”
Ladies’ Magazine and Literary Gazette
3 (May 1830): 218; E. Anthony Rotundo,
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(New York: Basic Books, 1993), 23–25; Louisa Susanna McCord, in O’Brien,
Conjectures of Order
, 1:278.

40
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(New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881), 1:70, 826; Clinton,
The Other Civil War
, 76.

41
. George Fitzhugh, “Women of the South,”
DeBow’s Review
31 (August 1861): 147, 150; Sarah Morgan,
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, ed. Charles East (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991), 74.

42
. Louisa May Alcott,
The Journals of Louisa May Alcott
, ed. Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989), 105;
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, 77, 85; Marilyn Mayer Culpepper,
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(Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1991), 39.

43
. John Anderson Richardson,
Richardson’s Defense of the South
(Atlanta: A. B. Caldwell, 1914), 604; Sara Edmonds,
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(Philadelphia: W. S. Williams, 1865), 101.

44
. Furgurson,
Chancellorsville 1863
, 32.

45
. DeAnn Blanton and Lauren Cook,
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(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002), 7; Richard Hall,
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(New York: Paragon House, 1993), 20–26, 100–101, 158, 161.

46
. Edward J. Hagerty,
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(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997), 94; Edward G. Longacre,
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(Conshohocken, PA: Combined Publishing, 1997), 23–24; L. C. Sizer, “Acting Her Part: Narratives of Union Women Spies,” in
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, ed. Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 127–30.

47
. “Education of Southern Women,”
DeBow’s Review
31 (October/November 1861): 390; Alcott,
Journals
, 105; Kate Cumming,
Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse
, ed. R. B. Harwell (Baton Rouge: Louisianan State University Press, 1959), 191–92; Edmonds,
Nurse and Spy
, 332; Leonidas Torrence to Sarah Ann Torrence, August 2, 1861, in “The Road to Gettysburg: The Diary and Letters of Leonidas Torrence of the Gaston Guards,” ed. Haskell Monroe,
North Carolina Historical Review
36 (October 1959): 481; Drew G. Faust, “Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War,” in
Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War
, ed. Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 175–79.

48
. “Christening the Palmetto State” (October 17, 1862), in
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, ed. Frank Moore (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1862), 6:15; Julieanna Williams, “For Our Boys—The Ladies’ Aid Societies,” in
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, ed. Mauriel P. Joslyn (Gretna, LA: Pelican, 2004), 25–30; Mary Elizabeth Massey,
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(New York: Knopf, 1966), 34–35; Culpepper,
Trials and Triumphs
, 256, 258, 261; George Rable,
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(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 139; Katharine Prescott Wormeley,
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(Boston: Ticknor, 1889), 6.

49
. E. Susan Barber, “Depraved and Abandoned Women: Prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, Across the Civil War,” in
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, ed. Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 163–65; Thomas P. Lowry,
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(Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 1994), 68.

50
. Culpepper,
Trials and Triumphs
, 266.

51
. Ibid., 126, 264; diary entries for June 9, 1862 and September 23, 1863, in Mary Chesnut,
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, ed. C. Vann Woodward (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981), 371, 426.

52
. Diary entry for June 29, 1861, in Kate Stone,
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, ed. John Q. Anderson (1955; Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995), 33; Drew G. Faust,
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 62; Martha Hodes,
White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), 126–27, 146.

53
.
The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan
, 67;
The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger
, 142; Rable,
Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism
, 74, 80, 84, 101, 140, 171; Larry B. Maier,
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(Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press), 71.

54
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(Novato, CA: Presidio, 1991), 177.

55
.
Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
, 459;
Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman
, 73.

56
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After Secession
, 120–21; 150, 151; Elizabeth Neblett, diary-letter for August 28, 1863, in
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57
. Rable,
Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism
, 183; Stephen V. Ash,
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(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 247.

58
. Clarence Mohr,
On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985), 113, 118, 153–57; Mary Elizabeth Massey,
Refugee Life in the Confederacy
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001 [1964]), 29, 37, 249; Rubin,
A Shattered Nation
, 64–68; Nelson and Sheriff,
A People at War
, 264–67; Drew G. Faust, “Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War,”
Journal of American History
76 (March 1990): 1213–14.

59
. Diary entry for March 10, 1863,
The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan
, 435.

60
. Nelson and Sheriff,
A People at War
, 116–19.

61
. Cumming,
Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse
, 178; David B. Sabine, “Captain Sally Tompkins,”
Civil War Times Illustrated
4 (November 1965): 36–39; Thomas De Leon,
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(New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1907), 389.

62
. Cornelia Hancock,
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, ed. H. S. Jaquette (New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1956), 92; Alcott,
Journals
, 114; Victoria E. Ott,
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(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008), 95–96; Nina Silber,
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(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 79; Nelson and Sheriff,
A People at War
, 242.

63
. Mary Ashton Livermore,
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(New York: Arno Press, 1972 [1889]), 435–36; Wendy Hamand Venet,
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(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1991), 154–55.

64
. Stephen B. Oates,
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(New York: Free Press, 1994), 377–79; Anthony to Clara Barton, September 14, 1881, in
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65
. Walt Whitman, “By Blue Ontario’s Shore,” in
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66
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67
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(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888), 2:600; Robert D. Richardson,
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(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991), 128–29.

68
. William Vaughn Moody, “An Ode in Time of Hesitation,” in
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69
. Strong, diary entry for November 29, 1860, in
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70
. Lincoln, “Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois,” January 27, 1838, “Resolutions in Behalf of Hungarian Freedom,” January 9, 1852, “Fragment on Slavery,” July 1, 1854, and “Message to Congress in Special Session,” July 4, 1861, in
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, 1:115, 2:116, 222, 4: 438.

71
. Frank L. Klement, “‘These Honored Dead’: David Wills and the Soldiers’ Cemetery at Gettysburg,” in
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(Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, 1993), 10.

72
. Lincoln, “Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg,” November 19, 1863, in
Collected Works
, 7:23.