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Title: The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War by Thomas P. Lowry ISBN: 0-8117-1515-9 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: More than history...
Comment: All of the other reviewers are correct. This is a fine book with a few holes...but...where, I ask you, are the books on this subject matter that we can compare? There are, simply out, none. And in that vein, I am very impressed. My advice? Buy it, and read slowly...savor the details and the lucid writing. Hear, in your mind, Dr. Lowry reading this to you across a coffee table or a campfire. Marvelous writing that really speaks! And remember, read slowly - this is the only book of it's kind.
Now, the REAL VALUE here is not as a civil war reference (and I find useless those trivia bugs who dwell on which way the wind blew at 4:45am on the first day of Bull Run). This is not the point, nor the issue.
Please understand that Dr. Lowry has illustrated, in a way that can be deduced by the wise reader, the sexual mores of the United States for the last 200 years. What he has done is show that our conservative fear of sex in the last 50 years, like the drug wars, is completely irrational and not at all in keeping with our national history and ethnic makeup.
Dr. Lowry has produced a telling record that shows that we are not the prim and proper Americans that we pretend to be as we decry teen sex, homosexuality and AIDS.
This is a book to buy and share. 'Please Sir, can I have some more?'
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating tale on a taboo subject
Comment: Lowry's book, tackles the unmentionable subject,the admission that the men fighting on blood soaked ground, standing up for the preservation of the Union, valiantly carrying on duties given, were also just men. Normal and some abnormal sex drives were not only present but quite commonplace. I applaud the audacity of a novelist to brave the ridicule and chastizing to come forth with an important novel such as this. Yes, rape, homosexuality, prostitution ran wild during the war years, but the point Lowry attempts to make is, does it really cloud the memories of the time? In a way yes, but the life although more primitive, we must allow for the carnal desires of all not to be made feel ashamed, even in those that lived 150+ years before us when the subject was not spoken of. I found all of the chapters fascinating and overflowing with interesting facts. A different take on the Civil war, but a necessary one. Great reading, and highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must for Civil War Researchers
Comment: I've read many books on the Civil War, but this is one of the best. Lowry does an incredible job digging up the seamy side of the war and presenting it in unflinching fashion. Yet at the same time, he views this stuff with a detached and nonjudgmental eye, and with gentle humor as well. Lowry often picks up where Bell Irvin Wiley left off in his wonderful "Life of Johnny Reb" and "Life of Billy Yank." Where Wiley tiptoed away from certain subjects (he was writing in the '40s, after all), giving the reader only a titillating tidbit followed by a footnote telling us we could find the information at some faraway library, Lowry seems to have gone and looked up that information for us, and presented it in all its glory. A notable example of this is the poem about collecting urine in the South for making gunpowder. Wiley only told us the poem existed; but Lowry prints it, and it's a howler! If you want to go on believing that all the Civil War soldiers were pure as the driven snow, this is probably not the book for you. But if you like your history fascinating warts and all, buy this book!
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Title: Everyday Life in the 1800s: A Guide for Writers, Students & Historians (Writer's Guides to Everyday Life) by Marc McCutcheon ISBN: 1582970637 Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West (Women of the West) by Ann Seagraves ISBN: 096190884X Publisher: Wesanne Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Tarnished Eagles: The Court-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels by Thomas P. Lowry ISBN: 0811715973 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War by Frank R. Freemon ISBN: 0252070100 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Everyday Life During the Civil War (WRITER'S GUIDE TO EVERYDAY LIFE SERIES) by Michael J. Varhola ISBN: 0898799228 Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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