The Flames of War and the Fire of the Homefront -- The Thomas T. Taylor Family and Gender Relations During the American Civil War, 1861-1865

Abstract

The Civil War altered every facet of American society. Unprecedented numbers of American women were forced to assume the role of head of household. They were left in charge of farms, households, children, and businesses while their husbands fought a conflict previously unmatched in its level of destruction and bloodshed. Of the men who left their families for the war, 620, 000 never returned home, thereby changing the lives of many American women forever. This paper will scrutinize approximately 450 letters written between Union Major Thomas T. Taylor and his wife, Margaret 'Maggie' Taylor (300 from Taylor; 150 from Maggie). The Taylors lived in Georgetown, Ohio, a bustling town on the Ohio River in Brown County about 30 miles southeast of Cincinnati.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 12, 1993
Accession Number
ADA270360

Entities

People

  • Raymond M. Platt

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Civil War
  • Civil War (United States)
  • Commerce
  • Construction
  • Education
  • Families (Human)
  • Governments
  • Head Of Household
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • New York
  • North Carolina
  • Personality
  • Revolutions
  • United States
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.