Shelby Harriel is an instructor of mathematics at Pearl River Community College. Her research on women soldiers of the Civil War has been published in various newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs, and brochures for the National Park Service and state historic sites. She has given numerous presentations about women soldiers in over ten states.
Behind the Rifle is notably precise. . . . The care with which
Harriel approaches the significance of the presence of these female
soldiers, and how we should make sense of them today, is also
notable and welcome.--Lyde Cullen Sizer, Sarah Lawrence College
"The Journal of American History"
Harriel offers fresh evidence and cogent insight into the
phenomenon of women soldiers fighting and dying in the American
Civil War. Her exhaustive research brings to light stories
previously undocumented and is presented in an engaging narrative
that crucially places these women in their social and historical
context. Behind the Rifle is a welcome addition to both Civil War
and women's history. I couldn't be more pleased to recommend
it.--DeAnne Blanton, coauthor of They Fought Like Demons: Women
Soldiers in the American Civil War
The old argument that there is nothing new to write about the Civil
War is obviously wrong, as illustrated by Shelby Harriel's Behind
the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi. Full of new
research and insightful analysis, Behind the Rifle provides a
wonderful overview of the important role of fighting women in
Mississippi's Civil War history.--Timothy B. Smith, author of
Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front; Shiloh: Conquer or
Perish; and The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson's Epic 1863
Civil War Raid Through Mississippi
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