Paul E. Teed

Joseph and Harriet Hawley's Civil War (eBook, PDF)

Partnership, Ambition, and Sacrifice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the remarkable partnership of Joseph and Harriet Hawley, a married couple from Connecticut whose lives were transformed by overlapping experiences in the American Civil War era. When Joseph became the colonel of the 7th Connecticut Infantry Regiment in 1862, Harriet ignored family advice and social convention, and travelled to Union military headquarters at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where Joseph's regiment was stationed. From that bold beginning, she spent the next three years as a visitor at field hospitals, a teacher at freedman's schools, a wartime journalist, a ward nurse, and her husband's informal advisor and publicist. Moving in and around the scenes of military action, she lived and worked in spaces usually reserved for men and took on responsibilities that implicitly challenged conventional understandings of women's physical and emotional dependency. While Joseph struggled for recognition and promotion in the brutally competitive environment of Union military politics, Harriet shrewdly used her own personal contacts with power brokers in Hartford and Washington to protect his interests and those of his men. And as the terrible realities of the Civil War pushed them both to the brink of physical and emotional collapse, Harriet and Joseph remained committed to the cause and found ways to sustain their devotion to both Union and emancipation in the very worst moments of the conflict.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216299301
• Artikelnr.: 74847748

Autorenporträt

Paul E. Teed is professor of history at Saginaw Valley State University where he has taught since 1997. He is the author of John Quincy Adams: Yankee Nationalist. His articles have appeared in Civil War History, the Journal of the Early Republic, and American Studies. In 2012, he was chosen as Distinguished Professor of the Year by the Presidents Council of the State Universities of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Hawley Family and Abolitionism
Chapter 2: Politics and Marriage
Chapter 3: The Winding Path to War
Chapter 4: Return to the South
Chapter 5: A Wartime Marriage
Chapter 6: The Great Inexorable Duty
Chapter 7: North from Olustee
Chapter 8: Armory Square and Bermuda Hundred
Chapter 9: Seeing It Out
Epilogue: Contested Legacies