… about the sexual lives of soldiers.19 Although for Civil War Americans sex was part of how
they … I chose the title for this book, Sex and the Civil War, because what follows offers some …

… of mailorder pornography during the Civil War. Giesberg mines the US Army courtmartial …
She vividly describes the many ways obscene materials were shared among soldiers and …

… , unexpected evidence about sex in the Civil War era. Her research … sexuality and gender
during the Civil War and Reconstruction to better understand the broader history of sexuality dur…

… by the Civil War. Organized chronologically, the first two chapters of Sex and the Civil War
focus … American consumers initially relied on overseas materials, but an 1842 customs law that …

… Sex and the Civil War bears traces of its genesis as a lecture … as an exhaustive study of sex
in the Civil War. Indeed, the book … poses, and as abstract moral guardians, not as actors with …

… about protecting male soldiers from pornography, they … to Civil War and nineteenth-century
gender and sexuality studies that … lives of Civil War soldiers and the war’s critical role in anti- …

… Sex and the Civil War examines “the US government’s antipornography campaign … American
Civil War (p. 9). In four short chapters, Judith Gieeisberg describes antebellum production …

… much as a history of sexuality but as an opening of the history of the Civil War—which is still
… years into the longer run of US history. The history of sexuality is an excellent place to begin …

… of sex and the Civil War? … US Army during the Civil War. So these two time lines that I
always thought of as very distinct--that is the post war backlash against women and the Civil War …

… this new information about Civil War sexuality has been the court-… the presses of the northern
pornography industry and were sent … The work of moral reform has commenced in earnest. …