Women of the Blue & Gray

By: Marianne Monson

Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer

Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Hidden among the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes: women.

North, South, Black, White, Native American, immigrant - the women in these small drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy, from tending to the wounded on the battlefield to spiriting away slaves through the Underground Railroad, from donning a uniform and fighting unrecognized alongside the men to working as spies for either side.

This audiobook brings to light the incredible stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant to our nation today. Each woman's experience helps us see a truer, fuller, richer version of what really happened in this country during this time period.

©2018 Marianne Monson (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Interesting and well told

The information in this book is detailed, well paced, and well told. The author does a very good job. I learned a lot.

The narrator of the book does a very good job as well. I was never bored.

Couldn’t wait to suggest it to others

This material and the talent were a supreme match, in my opinion.

It’s an excellent read for my nieces to learn of empowered women. I want them to see that circumstance of time and place doesn’t have to mean no hope or choice. I feel this work can teach them that without being preachy.

This is real life. It’s entertaining as well as instructive. Kudos. Will be looking for future publications.

Blue and gray

I love it. I like the history of it. It take to the places where it all started and ended

Excellent!

This was was both an informative and interesting read about a difficult time in our country's history and the many women who played vital roles.

Fun listen

Fun listen. It’s always rewarding to lean about Womens contributions throughout history. Often overlooked or viewed as unimportant compared to the mens view.

eye opening reading

Shocked. awed. amazed. marvelled. the stories of the heroism, bravery, leadership of women during the civil war. listen to this one.

A true written story ...

of who we are and where we came from. These United States aren't easy; lucky us to have books like this to remind us. Great listen-read for anyone who enjoys good story.

Thank Robert E. Lee

Very good historic, personal stories. But one thing stuck in my craw. The Robert E. Lee homage.

The author noted Lee “had to” choose between his state and his country, as if Lee was a founding father just a decade or two after our constitution was ratified. Did he really have a country, was he ever really true to its core tenets, let alone god’s? We were a nation twice as long as he was old. He chose his CLAN over the nation he swore to serve. Not a very good soldier that becomes a traitor. We should worship Benedict Arnold, if what Lee did is in anyway honorable.

He was not upholding states’ rights - he was fighting to keep other humans in bondage. Abolition had been going on since at least the Constitution process. John Quincy Adams fought for abolition — loudly — for at least 12 years, rousing millions of Americans North and South (angering most Southerners), until 1848, dying in congressional chambers just after speaking against slavery, for the thousandth time!! He predicted the civil war.

So nearly every American, who was anyone, knew the civil war was about slavery. John Brown put an exclamation point on slavery, as the main issue, in 1859, just before the war!

So that is why we should thank Robert E. Lee for likely making the war much of what it became and caused, especially the taking of his farm for Arlington National Cemetery. He was the (gray scale) reverse and perverse copy of John Brown and John Quincy. They were American Heroes, not traitorous deserters like Lee. If forgetting the history of another White man is an issue, then John Quincy Adams should be discussed, statued, building named, and revered a thousand times more than any secess!

Really well done and fascinating!

Incredible.listened to it 3 times back to back, for fear I missed something. Do not pick sides, all from the perspective of the women.

Both-sides-ism

The stories are exciting. However, the author reinforces white reconciliation above justice, and possibly the lost cause narrative.