{"product_id":"2940170580316","title":"Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this groundbreaking reconsideration of the Civil War, the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eConfederate Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to see America's bloodiest conflict not just as pitting brother against brother but as a woman's war.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confederate women would be innocent noncombatants. Experience soon challenged this simplistic belief. Stephanie McCurry reveals the vital and sometimes confounding roles women played on and off the battlefield. We meet Clara Judd, a Confederate spy whose imprisonment for treason sparked heated controversy, defying the principle of civilian immunity and leading to lasting changes in the laws of war. Hundreds of thousands of enslaved women escaped across Union lines, upending emancipation policies that extended only to enslaved men. The Union's response was to classify fugitive black women as \"soldiers' wives,\" regardless of whether they were married amp;mdash; offering them some protection but placing new obstacles on their path to freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the war's aftermath, the Confederate grande dame Gertrude Thomas wrestled with her loss of status and of her former slaves. War, emancipation, and economic devastation affected her family intimately, and through her life McCurry helps us see how fundamental the changes of Reconstruction were.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123279216880,"sku":"2940170580316","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170580316_p0.jpg?v=1763713605","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170580316","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}