Patriotic toil : Northern women and the American Civil War /
"During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organization to ensure that women's support for the war effort served an elite, liberal vision of nationhood. After years of debate ove...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1998.
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