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'''I also found some of her descriptions very powerful and emotionally striking. "It came very hard on us to let the boys go, but we felt we'd no right to hinder'em. The country needed'em more'n we." (263) It shows how much patriotism these women had.''' | '''I also found some of her descriptions very powerful and emotionally striking. "It came very hard on us to let the boys go, but we felt we'd no right to hinder'em. The country needed'em more'n we." (263) It shows how much patriotism these women had.''' | ||
I also loved the when the one girl told "For during the last war in Germany men were so scarce that she had to work three years in a blacksmith's shop." (263) Was this really true? Would the German people really have accepted this of their women? Were women in Germany treated differently, given more freedom than American women? --Jennifer S. | I also loved the when the one girl told "For during the last war in Germany men were so scarce that she had to work three years in a blacksmith's shop." (263) Was this really true? Would the German people really have accepted this of their women? Were women in Germany treated differently, given more freedom than American women? --Jennifer S. | ||
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| + | THe contrast between Livermore's essay in Woloch and then in MP was interesting. She seems to be disgusted by the women working in the field at men's tasks at first, describing her aversion, etc. She described the family in "Northern Women on Farms" as reluctantly doing the work, recording one of the daughters saying, "and that sort o' takes the edge off from this business of doing men's work." Then in the MP essay, she seems to glorify women's roles in the war, describing enthusiasm and cooperation. I thought at first that these essays must have been written years apart, and Livermore's attitudes had changed with time. Then I noticed that they were published the same year. Then I noticed that they were published in the same book. What? --Stef L. | ||
== Louticia Jackson’s letter in 1863 == | == Louticia Jackson’s letter in 1863 == | ||
