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.See, e.g., Lewis, Republican Wife, and McCurry, Two Faces ofRepublicanism. Two works on Civil War women that illustrate this partnership at workare Bleser and Gordon, Intimate Strategies, and Faust, Mothers of Invention.28.Catherine Allgor (Parlor Politics, 125 27, 139, 147 89) argues that in the earlynational context, these responsibilities could be rationalized as a service to their hus-band s and family s interest, which, in turn, gave women license to act in politicallyassertive ways.29.For an exhaustive study of the importance of respectful, loving companionship tohusbands and wives, see Anya Jabour s Marriage in the Early Republic.For other worksthat highlight the increasing importance of affection in marriage by midcentury, seeCenser, North Carolina Planters; Lystra, Searching the Heart; Anne C.Rose, VictorianAmerica; and Mintz, Prison of Expectations.In the Civil War context, see Stephen W.Berry, All That Makes a Man.30.Benjamin Buckner to Helen Martin, January 8, 1862, Buckner Papers, UKY.31.Benjamin Buckner to Helen Martin, December 19, 1861, March 15, June 5, August10, 1862, ibid.Buckner exemplified a proslavery Unionism not uncommon in the border 232 notes to pages 45 46states and already seen in the views of the Union fathers described in Chapter 1.Heonce explained his decision to side with the Union despite his proslavery views: Ithink it better to fight for that side, which has heretofore given us peace prosperity andhappiness, than for that which only promises us [lawless?] violence and commercialruin (Buckner to Martin, June 5, 1862).32.See Chapter 4 for an extended discussion of this type of assistance.33. Arrest of Mrs.Phillips, Daily Missouri Democrat, August 30, 1861.See alsoJournal of Eugenia Phillips, August 23, 29, 30, 1861, Philip Phillips Papers, LC, andJacobs, Eugenia Levy Phillips, 23 26.Eugenia wrote of her letter writing: If an ardentattachment to the land of my birth and the expression of deepest sympathy with my rela-tives and friends in the South, constitute treason then I am indeed a traitor (Journal,August 30, 1861).In August 1861 she was arrested for treason but was released threeweeks later.She and her husband later moved to Alabama for the duration of the war. Arrest of Mrs.Phillips, Daily Missouri Democrat, August 30, 1861; More PetticoatRebels, Louisville Daily Journal, August 27, 1861 (reprinted from New York Times).See Philip Phillips s account of the arrest in The Imprisonment of the Hon.P.Phillipsand Family at Washington, Louisville Daily Courier, October 25, 1861.A similar caseis recounted in Arrest of Mrs.Senator Gwin Another Infamous Outrage, LouisvilleDaily Courier, August 27, 1861.34.[Untitled], Louisville Daily Journal, July 21, 1862.35.For a general discussion of family honor, see Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor,132 33.On the importance of honor to Civil War soldiers in particular, see McPherson,For Cause and Comrades.36.Green Clay to Brutus J.Clay, November 30, 1863, Clay Family Papers, UKY(Kentucky Union officer).The Lincolns story is discussed in depth in Chapter 4.Theheadlines over these newspaper articles alone indicate the scrutiny endured by Lin-coln: Mrs.President Lincoln s Sister, Chambersburg (Pa.) Valley Spirit, April 6, 1864,from Ayers et al., The Valley of the Shadow, ; Mrs.Lincoln s Rebel Brother, Louisville Daily Journal, April 13, 1864; Lincoln s Sister-in-Law, Daily Missouri Democrat, February 21, 1861; Old Abe s Kentucky Relatives, Daily Missouri Democrat, October 7, 1861.37.Story retold in Joseph Cabell Breckinridge to Robert J.Breckinridge, January 9,1861, Breckinridge Family Papers, LC.38.Bethiah P.McKown to My Dear Son, June 4, 1863, in Goodrich, Civil WarLetters, 357 58.39.[Untitled], Nashville Daily Press, April 25, 1863; Jeff Thompson s Family, Louisville Daily Journal, October 23, 1861.Thompson was not the only husband whoresorted to insulting his wife s mental capacity in response to her divergent views on thewar
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