History & Heritage: Candice Shy Hooper
Wednesday, March 15, 2017Time 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
CANDICE SHY HOOPER, HISTORIAN AND WRITER
Speaking on her book, Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War – For Better and for Worse (May 2016).
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 | 4:30pm | Auditorium
Hooper’s book illuminates the profound impact of military wives on the Civil War by examining the lives of Jessie Fremont, Nelly McClellan, Ellen Sherman, and Julia Grant. America’s leading Lincoln scholar, Harold Holzer, said of the book, “here are fresh, revealing, well-crafted portraits of women who not only helped propel their husbands to major military careers, but established themselves, for better or worse, as formidable battlers in their own right.” Using the couples’ letters, memoirs, and photographs, along with new maps that follow the women’s travels during the war, Hooper reveals a hidden chapter of Civil War history.