In Claiming Union Widowhood , Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War.
Brimmer exposes and examines the numerous a.
Reconstructing the grassroots pension network in New Bern, North Carolina, through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines how the mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers struggled to claim pensions in the face of evidentiary obstacles and personal scrutiny.
In Claiming Union Widowhood , Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War