Such Anxious Hours: Wisconsin Women's Voices from the Civil War (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) V. Castro Inspired by a longing for

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Such Anxious Hours: Wisconsin Women's Voices from the Civil War (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) V. Castro Inspired by a longing forLetters from soldiers to their families often provide prominent narratives of the Civil War. But what about the messages from the women who maintained homes and farmsteads alone, all while providing significant emotional support to their loved ones at the front? The letters and diaries of these eight women echo the ever growing horrors of the conflict and reveal the stories of the Wisconsin home front. Twenty one year old Emily Quiner sought a way to