the core sporespondence of the governors is that they push back. they say that the officials are not giving them what they are supposed to get. they write the governor and they say put him in the army. they say by the end of the war, put him in the service. i didn't write that much about elite women in my book at all. it raises a question. to what extent did the men in the field grasp or were they in communication with what was going on at home? >> sometimes the protests of the women followed the collectives of the company community. they would see huge petitions e being written to the governor. and that is how it would be organized. >> women on the home front often no more about exception for example, than men who are in the army. and what is the government responsible for. women would say, would you let my son out of the army? he would say you have written the wrong official. in some cases men are coaching them on what to say to get out of service. so you see a rash of letters and the women of the community would get a petition and have all kinds