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File Size: 5421 KB
Print Length: 533 pages
Publisher: Harper; Reprint edition (September 2, 2014)
Publication Date: September 2, 2014
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
Language: English
ASIN: B00FOPM7L6
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Semi-fictionalized and well written account of four famous women operatives in the Civil War and the paternalistic, chivalrous, traitorous or just plain foolish men who enabled them. Belle Boyd, Emma Edmonds, Elizabeth Van Lew and Rose Greenhow are all sympathetically drawn. There is plenty of interesting detail for CW buffs as well as photographs. The chronological format, which switches back and forth among the characters can be clunky at times, but the book is definitely worth a read.
The American Civil War is often portrayed as fought by Abraham Lincoln, Robert Lee, Grant, Sherman, McClellan, (and sometimes Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington) a bunch of plantation owners and escaped slaves.You see what's missing, right? Women didn't fight as soldiers (unless you were Emma Edmondson/Frank Thompson) but they were as integral a part of the war effort as the men--and here Abbott gives us a readable and partly-novelized version of four women who acted as spies during the war. In these portraits of four women, you get a sense of the socially interwoven, small geographical distances (compared to the current US), political manuevering, and social class system that was the background of the Civil War.And the women themselves; two Union, two Confederate spies (the Confederate spies seemed to thrive in the media spotlight in a more flamboyant way than the more secretive Unionists) are fascinating women of their time.You can read the other reviews to find out about who the book is about, so let me just highlight in this review how readable, interesting, and weirdly novelesque the history is in this book. Abbott rotates chapters between each woman, usually cutting off a narrative at some cliff-hangery point like when Union guards come to arrest Belle Boyd, etc. There are primary sources quoted and evocative descriptions of obviously well-researched places like Old Capitol prison, and then there are the "novelized" moments where the narrative takes on a kind of self-conscious literary thrill-seeker quality; such Rose's little daughter's black eyes fervently peeking over snow-white covers when her spy mother puts her to bed during a Union search of her house or the description of Belle's thoughts while she drowned.I like those novelized bits, it made the women seem more real to me than often strictly historically accurate depictions do.Anyway, highly recommended slice of American Civil War history for anyone interested in strong American females' history or Civil War.
The author meticulously researched the material and I learned a great deal about the Civil War, both the logistics and the attitude of those on both sides of the conflict. When the book seemed to stretch on and on, I realized that's what this war must have seemed like to those who lived through it. Everyone thought it would be over quickly. Because the narrative fluctuates among the four women, sometimes I lost tract of who was who since several of the women were similar even thought they were on different sides of the conflict.I considered whether the author could have handled the stories differently and I decided her method was best and she tracked them as the war progressed rather than covering their stores separately. My advice to someone reading the book is to be engaged from the beginning and take a few notes as each woman is introduced so that you recall the basics as the woman is brought up again as the story and the war progresses. An important and overlooked story of female history.
All in all this was an excellent collection of history/biography covering a rarely told element of the Civil War - or any conflict for that matter. The book shares the stories of four women from both sides of the war, and their efforts to aid their cause. As I read this book, my thought was, "well, yeah, of course women who were away from the front lines did things that were courageous and compassionate." Thing is, there's not much depth in terms of reading material on that aspect of things. I was very impressed with two of the women, Emma Edmonds and Elizabeth Van Lew. Don't want to put a spoiler in here, so I'll just say that these two had some steel in them. The others did as well, for other reasons, but Edmonds and Van Lew struck me more than the others. This should be required reading for all young people, regardless of gender, as it tells an important aspect of the Civil War that just isn't covered in many places. Excellent read!
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