Southern writer to speak on women’s role in Civil War
Many women during the Civil War would not dance with a man if he was not in uniform, said Pat Carr, writer-in-residence at the Writers’ Center, and some would refuse to flirt with, go on a date with or get engaged to a man if he was not in the Army, either.
“Having been through almost all the wars we’ve been through in this century, I’m pretty much a pacifist,” Carr said. “So I find it pretty reprehensible that women told guys, ‘Go fight, go fight.’ It’s like standing around in the school yard encouraging the boys to beat each other to a pulp.”