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 Frémont 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.…mehr
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 Frémont 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.
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.
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* Introduction * Part One: Confederate Marriages * The Marriage of Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis * The Lee Marriage * "Stonewall" and Mary Anna Jackson and the Civil War * The Marriage of LaSalle Corbell and George E. Pickett * Lizinka Campbell Brown and Richard S. Ewell * The Marriage of Amelia Gayle and Josiah Gorgas * Part Two: Union Marriages * Ulysses and Julia Grant * General and Mrs. William T. Sherman, a Contentious Marriage * The Reconstruction of a "Home" * The Civil War Marriage of Lawrence and Fannie Chamberlain * The Civil War Partnership of Elizabeth and George A. Custer * Permutations of a Marriage: John Charles and Jessie Benton Fremon's Civil War Alliance * "A Good Wife and the Best Friend in the World": the Marriage of Elizabeth Blair and S. Phillips Lee * Notes * Authors' biographies
* Introduction * Part One: Confederate Marriages * The Marriage of Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis * The Lee Marriage * "Stonewall" and Mary Anna Jackson and the Civil War * The Marriage of LaSalle Corbell and George E. Pickett * Lizinka Campbell Brown and Richard S. Ewell * The Marriage of Amelia Gayle and Josiah Gorgas * Part Two: Union Marriages * Ulysses and Julia Grant * General and Mrs. William T. Sherman, a Contentious Marriage * The Reconstruction of a "Home" * The Civil War Marriage of Lawrence and Fannie Chamberlain * The Civil War Partnership of Elizabeth and George A. Custer * Permutations of a Marriage: John Charles and Jessie Benton Fremon's Civil War Alliance * "A Good Wife and the Best Friend in the World": the Marriage of Elizabeth Blair and S. Phillips Lee * Notes * Authors' biographies
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