Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice

by Thomas P. Lowry

During the Civil War, southern women fought a war within a war. While most of their efforts involved legal activities, many women in the Confederacy challenged Federal authority in more direct and dangerous ways. Here are their stories, many in first-person testimonies.

Genres: History, Civil War, Biography, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, Womens

212 pages, Hardcover

First published August 14, 2006

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.

Reviews

[Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found it revolting.

Maybe the author is a confederate because this book depicts women who fought the Union as heroic.

Maybe it was well-researched and highlights the fact that women participate in wars, albeit covertly--especially when their loved ones are being decimated.

Maybe we expect the women to remain neutral in a fight or a war, and when they betray one side or the other, we find it difficult to mete justice out in equal manner.

The more I read . . . the more I wanted to just blech!
Maybe that's what the author intended.

[Amanda (TheBookwormAdventures) · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was poorly organized and written. I felt as though it could've been extremely interesting and informative, it just fell short. It spent too much time on unimportant details and not enough time on the backgrounds of the women themselves.

[Betty]

120 Southern women convicted by Union Military Justice