United States Christian Commission, for the Army and Navy
United States Christian Commission, for the Army and Navy

Author: United States Christian Commission

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-22

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 9780484481311

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Excerpt from United States Christian Commission, for the Army and Navy: Work and Incidents; First Annual Report Mrs. Harris was in Philadelphia to recruit. Thanksgiving was at hand. She knew that our brave soldiers would have a cheer less Thanksgiving of it on the Heights, with nothing but these dry rations. She wrote Mr. Stuart, describing it, and asking for apples to cook for them, and some other things to give a. Pleasant Variety. Roast turkeys and mince pies were not thought of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Patriotic Toil
Patriotic Toil

Author: Jeanie Attie

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780801422249

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During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organization that would ensure women's support for the war effort served an elite, liberal vision of nationhood. Coming after years of debate over women's place in the democracy and status as citizens, soldier relief work offered women an occasion to demonstrate their patriotism and their rights to inclusion in the body politic. Exploring the economic and ideological conflicts that surrounded women's unpaid labors on behalf of the Union army, Jeanie Attie reveals the impact of the Civil War on the gender structure of nineteenth-century America. She illuminates how the war became a testing ground for the gendering of political rights and the ideological separation of men's and women's domains of work and influence. Attie draws on letters by hundreds of women in which they reflect on their political awakenings at the war's outbreak and their increasing skepticism of national policies as the conflict dragged on. Her book integrates the Civil War into the history of American gender relations and the development of feminism, providing a nuanced analysis of the relationship among gender construction, class development, and state formation in nineteenth-century America.