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Lincoln's Generals' Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War—for Better and for Worse
Author
Candice Shy Hooper
Content
viii + 429 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press
Description
Covers Jessie Benton Frémont, Julia Dent Grant, Nelly McClellan, and Ellen Ewing Sherman.
Main subject
Autobiography and Biography
History
Politics
ISBN
9781606352786 (cloth); 9781631011986 (ebook); 9781631011993 (ebook)
Citation
Hooper, Candice Shy.
Lincoln's Generals' Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War—for Better and for Worse.
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2016. Sylvia. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL4176.
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05-15-2025
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Autobiography and Biography
History
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Peace and War
U.S. Civil War (1861–65)
Generals' Spouses
Women in War
Family Relationships
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Gender Roles
Frémont, Jessie Benton (1824–1902)
Grant, Julia Dent (1826–1902)
McClellan, Mary Ellen Marcy (1835–1915)
Sherman, Ellen Ewing (1824–88)
United States
19th Century