.... Fields Norman bodies soldiers’ Confederacy death etiquette gender norms roles graves reactions of widows initial transition to widowhood Coggin Ann Coggin Ebenezer B Epps C D Freemon Frank R minié balls Boathby F L Dreux Charley Mothershead Joseph Solomon Solomon P Delony William Gaston...

... in a war zone, leveraging their status as war widows when necessary. Widows not only were aware of the social capital they gained in widowhood but often used that capital for their own benefit during the war. Here, their ability to support the emotional regime of the Confederacy had real significance...

... to establish the Confederacy’s legitimacy. Alexander Edward Porter Davis Jefferson Lincoln Abraham Longstreet James Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government The Davis women Confederacy cultural capital Faust Drew Gilpin Glymph Thavolia legitimacy Confederate McCurry Stephanie widowhood widows...

... sons to North Carolina and enrolled them in a Presbyterian male academy. Hutchison Ebenezer Nye Missionaries Nye Amanda Presbyterian Church Academies Entrepreneurship First Presbyterian Church Raleigh N C French schools McPheeters William Teachers women Widowhood Emancipation Female...

...This chapter examines love and loss in the antebellum South, 1820–1860, to reveal the power of emotional expression and allow a fuller understanding how the Civil War affected courtship, engagement, marriage, and widowhood. Even as women increasingly sought the love match of a companionate marriage...