books.google.com - Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own. Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household,...http://books.google.com/books/about/Army_at_Home.html?id=u2Wl_7PbzR8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareArmy at Home