Confederate Girlhoods is an invaluable addition to the published literature of the Civil War, its aftermath, and consequences---and even better, it is a riveting read, well-rounded, unflinchingly honest, and full of surprises. ---Thulani Davis, author of My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots<BR><BR>Confederate Girlhoods makes an important contribution to the history of Springfield and the state of Missouri, as well as to gender history and the history of the American Civil War. The writings of the Campbell-McCammon family ...have been expertly edited for this volume. This is a pleasure to read. ---William Garrett Piston, coauthor of Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Missouri in the Civil War<BR><BR>Confederate Girlhoods gathers materials from the Campbell-McCammon Collection, as preserved in The History Museum for Springfield-Greene County. A founding family of Springfield, Missouri, the Campbells were prodigious writers whose memoirs, correspondence, and fiction portray four generations of Ozarks pioneer women.