How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Maybe it's the wrong season for women and children….Folks hereabouts is got used to having their menfolks killed and even shot from behind. But even the Yankees never got them used to the other." (5.2.27)
Yikes. When this guy talks about season he's not talking about the holidays. He's talking about hunting—people are upset because, even if they did get used to men being killed in the war, they didn't get used to women and children being hunted and murdered.
Quote #5
And so now Father's troop and all the other men in Jefferson, and Aunt Louisa and Mrs Habersham and all the women in Jefferson were actually enemies for the reason that the men had given in and admitted that they belonged to the United States but the women had never surrendered. (6.1.1)
Battle of the Sexes, Civil War Edition. The men, who fought, lost, and then gave up, must face an enemy even fiercer than the Yankees: their women. The women are the real "unvanquished" from the book's title, because they do not give up their traditions after defeat.
Quote #6
Ringo and I were fifteen then; we felt almost exactly like we had to eat and sleep and change our clothes in a hotel built only for ladies and children. (6.1.2)
You might have noticed that women and children get lumped into the same category (versus men) a lot in this novel. They're supposedly the helpless ones, the ones who the men are off protecting. We know, though, that often it's the women (like Granny) and children (like Bayard and Ringo) who are the real fighters.