The Home Front: 1861 to 1865

Women’s Roles

What do these examples—the First Family, the Confederate First Family, and the British royal family tell us?

They suggest—but do not prove—that familial ties were extremely strong. To be sure, there were distractions from, and irritations with, matters of family, but nineteenth-century Americans deeply felt the loss of family members.



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