AND so much more (resources for Civil War Women and their stories)

The women in the previous posts are just the most well known of those who work to help the cause the loved and believed in.  As I mentioned in the first post on spies, many of them will never be known as they covered their tracks, kept no documents, and were as well hidden as their covert activities at the time of the war.

I’ve read many other stories of the Women who spied, and there are many resources to finding out more. As well as the stories of the women who died with their men folk, some who died of desease and some who lived to tell the story of their service in letters, diaries and journals. 

There are many resources on line, but also in print.  I’ve listed some of them here.  But keep looking, new books and links are coming up all the time.  For you re-enactors, there are many Yahoo loops that will put you in touch with others of the same interest.  They talk about the details of living and clothing from that era. Enjoy.

 

 

These are some of the books in my own library, and some of the links on my favoirites:

 

A MIDWIFE’S TALE:  The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (a Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) 

Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York

ISBN 0-679-73376-0

 

MOTHERHOOD IN THE OLD SOUTH: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing, by Sally G. McMIllen:

Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London

ISBN 0-8071-1517-7 (cloth)  ISBN 0-8071-2166-5 (pbk.)

 

THE CONFEDERATE HOUSEWIFE: Receipts and Remedies, Together with Sundry Suggestions for Garden, Farm & Plantation, compiled and edited by John Hammond Moore.

Summerhouse Press, P. O. Box 1492, Columbia, SC 29202

ISBN 1-887714-09-X (pbk.: alk.paper)

 

A BLACK WOMAN’S CIVIL WAR MEMOIRS: reminiscences of My life in Camp with the 33^rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1^st South Carolina Volunteers, by Susie King Taylor (edited by Patricia W. Romero and Introduction by Willie Lee Rose)

Markus Wiener Publishers, 114 Jefferson Rd, Princeton, NJ 08540

ISBN:  0-910129-85-1

 

MOTHERS OF INVENTION:  Women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

The University of North Carolina Press, PO Box 2288, Chapel Hill, NC  27515-2288 www.uncpress.unc.edu

ISBN:  978 0-80785-573-7

 

WHITE ROSES: Stories of Civil War Nurses, by Rebecca D. Larson:

Thomas Publications, P.O. Box 3031, Gettysburg, PA 17325

ISBN-1-57747-011-7

 

KATE: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse, by Kate Cumming

Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London

ISBN 0-8071-2267-X (pbk.)

 

VALOR AND LACE: The Roles of Confederate Women 1861-1865, edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn, ten contributing authors:  Journal of Confederate History Series, John McGlone, Series Editor Vol XV

Southern Heritage Press, P. O. Box 1012, Murfreesboro, TN 37133

ISBN 1-889332-01-1

 

WOMEN OF THE WAR:  their heroism and self-sacrifice / true stories of brave women in the Civil War by Frank Moore

Published by Ralph Roberts

ISBN:  978 1-888295-00-9

 

WHEN A ROSE IS NOT A ROSE, by Rebecca D. Larson

Thomas Publications, P.O. Box 3031, Gettysburg, PA 17325

ISBN-1-57747-053-2

 

BLUE AND GRAY: Roses of Intrigue, by Rebecca D. Larson:

Thomas Publications, P.O. Box 3031, Gettysburg, PA 17325

ISBN-0-939631-46-6

 

A YANKEE SPY IN RICHMOND:  A Civil War Diary of “Crazy Bet” Van Lew edited by David D. Ryan

Stackpole Books, 5067 Ritter Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055

ISBN:  978 0-8117-0554-7

 

Web Sites:

 

http://www.wandakeesey.com 

             with links to:http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/cwdocs.html

          http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html

          http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/manswar/

          http://www.civilwarhistorian.com/

          http://www.civilwar.com/

          http://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/

 

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