“I Was Detected by My Laugh”: The Brief Military Career of Margaret Cathrine Murphy
CW: sexual violence and self-harm On May 17, 1863, Margaret Cathrine Murphy found herself in an unlikely situation: being interrogated as a spy while imprisoned in Annapolis. As she explained, she was suspected of being a rebel spy, not for harming the Union cause, but for dressing as a man ...
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Interview with Melissa DeVelvis on Gendering Secession
In today’s Muster, JCWE associate editor Robert Bland interviews Melissa DeVelvis, author of Gendering Secession: White Women in the Politics of South Carolina, 1859 to 1861 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025). Gender Secession explores the lives and politics of South Carolina's elite white women during the end of the ...
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