Primrose Path: A Biblical-Sociological Study of the Ladies of the Evening in Civil War Richmond and Washington, DC

by Thomas P. Lowry

An annotated roster of all known prostitutes in the capitals of the United State of America and the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, with discussion. Includes sociolgy and Biblical injunctions, one in Greek. The only book to cover prostitution in both Civil War capitals.

82 pages, Paperback

First published November 29, 2011

About the author

Thomas P. Lowry is a retired psychiatrist and associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco. He is the author of Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools: Courts-Martial of Civil War Union Colonels, available in a Bison Books edition, and The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War.