Cherri P. (flygirlco) reviewed Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War on + 3 more book reviews
This book gives a good overview of women's lives in the South during the Civil War. The author makes extensive use of diaries and letters of women in all social classes to show the affects of the war on women's lives. A must read for anyone interested in women's lives during the Civil War.