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A review by greeniezona
Women of the Blue and Gray: True Civil War Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies by Marianne Monson
informative
4.0
This was another buddy read with my dad. I found this book fascinating for covering so many stories that I had never heard (considering the Civil War reading group I was in for a while), but at the same time there were a number of things that bothered me about this book:
1. Some moral equivalency between the North and South that felt a little gross.
2. Given how recent this book is, the lack of acknowledgement of transgender people was pointedly painful in a few places.
3. The author's tendency to over-reach when tying things together in each chapter conclusion.
That said, I REALLY ENJOYED many of the stories, and I love the way the book was formatted, with further reading sections right in the body text at the end of each chapter, encouraging you to read further about some of these remarkable people.
1. Some moral equivalency between the North and South that felt a little gross.
2. Given how recent this book is, the lack of acknowledgement of transgender people was pointedly painful in a few places.
3. The author's tendency to over-reach when tying things together in each chapter conclusion.
That said, I REALLY ENJOYED many of the stories, and I love the way the book was formatted, with further reading sections right in the body text at the end of each chapter, encouraging you to read further about some of these remarkable people.