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Review: `Civil War Wives' is fascinating reading

By MARY FOSTER
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-"Civil War Wives: The Life and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis and Julia Dent Grant" (Alfred A. Knopf, 384 pages, $27.95), by Carol Berkin: Carol Berkin has found rich ground in the wives of famous men during the Civil War and mines it for wonderfully readable stories.
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Civil War Wives: The Life and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis and Julia Dent Grant (Alfred A. Knopf, 384 pages, $27.95), by Carol Berkin: Carol Berkin has found rich ground in the wives of famous men during the Civil War and mines it for wonderfully readable stories.