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Remembering the Dead: Civil War Mourning
Record #:
14361
Author(s):
Umfleet, LeRae S.
Abstract:
Umfleet discusses how North Carolina women mourned the deaths of brothers, fathers, and husbands during the Civil War. Society expected women to dress in black and wear special jewelry. Men would wear a black armband to mourn a loss.
Source:
Tar Heel Junior Historian
(NoCar F 251 T3x),
Vol. 50 Issue 2, Spring 2011
,
p
16-17, il, por
Subject(s):
North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
;
Mourning etiquette
;
Mourning jewelry