List of Illustrations
Foreword
Elisabeth Griffith
Acknowledgments
1. The Better Angels of Our Nature
2. Women in Antebellum America
3. The Underground Railroad
4. Abolitionism in America
5. The “Seething Hell of War”
6. Noble Watchwords and Inspiring Ideas
7. Tending to the Wounded and Missing
8. The Prolonged War
9. “With Malice toward None, with Charity for All”
10. “Joy My Freedom!”
11. Women in Post–Civil War America
12. Concluding Remarkable Lives
13. The Angels among Us Still
14. “Contemplating Their Example”
15. Voce Angeli, or “Voices of the Angels”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Robert C. Plumb is a writer, historian, and former marketing
executive for two Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of Your
Brother in Arms: A Union Soldier’s Odyssey and has written for the
Montgomery County Historical Society’s journal, the Washington
Post, and the Washington Post Magazine. He lives outside
Washington, DC. Elisabeth Griffith is the author of In Her
Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
“All of these extraordinary women did a great deal in the causes of
freedom, women’s rights, and literary excellence, as Robert Plumb
makes clear in this fine group biography of five women who truly
did change the course of American history.”—James M. McPherson,
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil
War Era
“There couldn’t be a better time for America to find its
better angels, and Robert C. Plumb’s lucid and admiring portrait of
five exemplary women is just the ticket. You’ll find corners of
American history your old textbooks never told you about, and once
you’re done, you’ll want to pass it on to the next
generation.”—Louis Bayard, author of Courting Mr. Lincoln and The
Pale Blue Eye
“Robert Plumb has placed five remarkable women on the center stage
of the American Civil War. Their compelling stories are told with
perception and freshness in this inspiring work of women’s
history.”—Robin G. Schulze, editor of Becoming Marianne Moore and
author of The Degenerate Muse
“Few realize the scope of what these remarkable women overcame and
accomplished during their long, productive lives. . . . The Better
Angels had great impact in their own time but also helped advance
issues that benefited society in future generations. From them
readers can learn lessons of courage, determination, creativity,
and resourcefulness to make a difference in today’s world.”—Marilyn
Southard Warshawsky, author of John Franklin Goucher: Citizen of
the World
“The Better Angels weaves together the stories of five
extraordinary women whose talents won scope and recognition in the
struggle to end slavery that led to the Civil War. As skillfully
told by Robert Plumb, their stories illustrate the measure of
liberation that some women were able to seize through that brutal
conflict.”—David O. Stewart, best-selling author of Impeached: The
Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s
Legacy and George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s
Founding Father
“A clear, compelling introduction for readers not steeped in the
history of the American Civil War. Robert Plumb doesn’t just
chart clashes and body counts. He humanizes the conflicts that
tore the country apart, focusing on the home front as well as the
front lines. His story unfolds through the perspective of five
women [whose] lively group portrait will inspire readers to find
out more.”—M. G. Lord, author of Astro Turf and The Accidental
Feminist
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