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Wow, Mary Livermore writes beautifully. I was impressed by the scale of the efforts she describes, like the 1,000 shirts a day made in Boston - imagine the dedication that would be needed to organize that so quickly and at such a grand scale without Facebook! I also was struck by the seriousness she assigns to things women did like ignoring fashion. That sounds like such a small thing now, but with the amount of fabric needed for bandages and uniforms and the amount of fabric a new dress would have taken at the time, I suppose that actually would have been a significant contribution in and of itself. -- Katie C. | Wow, Mary Livermore writes beautifully. I was impressed by the scale of the efforts she describes, like the 1,000 shirts a day made in Boston - imagine the dedication that would be needed to organize that so quickly and at such a grand scale without Facebook! I also was struck by the seriousness she assigns to things women did like ignoring fashion. That sounds like such a small thing now, but with the amount of fabric needed for bandages and uniforms and the amount of fabric a new dress would have taken at the time, I suppose that actually would have been a significant contribution in and of itself. -- Katie C. | ||
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| + | I think this has been my favorite reading of the semester. There is so much interesting information. The description of the work clothes that the women were wearing is fantastic, you do not see women dressed like that in photographs of the time period, so it is neat to have the description. Also, I think it was not so much about not following the fashion as it was about common sense. I imagine it would be very hard to plow a field while wearing hoops. I also imagine the women still had a best dress to wear on Sundays and to other nice events and that they did wear hoops with it. | ||
| + | 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. | ||
== Louticia Jackson’s letter in 1863 == | == Louticia Jackson’s letter in 1863 == | ||
