Lincoln's Generals' Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War for Better and for Worse

摘要

Candice Hooper observes there is extensive literature on Confederate women, but relatively little on Union wives beyond the 2007 essay collection Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives. Hooper says wives are key to understanding the career trajectories of President Lincoln's four most famous generals: John C. Fremont and George B. McClellan, who rose and fell swiftly, and William T. Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant, who emerged as shining stars.