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Jones, Ida E.
West, E. James. A House for the Struggle. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 296 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780252044328.$24.95 (paper), ISBN 9780252086397. 
In this week’s blog post, Daniel Farrell, explores the connections between federal desertion, treason, Copperheadism and imprisonment in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri.
In May 1863, Humphrey H. Hood, a surgeon for the Union Army, described for his wife, an interesting episode concerning an arrested deserter. Writing from Memphis, Tennessee, Hood explained how an unnamed Indianan soldier, accused of desertion, attempted to escape the guardhouse and was ultimately killed. The soldier appeared to have slipped out rather easily, but a 16-year-old guard quickly confronted him. Hesitant
The National Women's History Project recently called for nominations for 2019 honorees for "Visionary Women: Champions of Peace and Nonviolence." I submitted a nomination for Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, originally from Lexington, Kentucky, with the following information:
Sophonisba “Nisba” Preston Breckinridge
November 30, 1865 – November 30, 1947
Public intellectual, diplomat, suffragist, scholar, co-founder of the Woman’s Peace Party
In 2-3 sentences explain the nature of your nominee’s work and accomplishments:
A great scholar, Sophonisba P. Breckinridge earned a Ph.D. in political
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