Society for Women in the Civil War: A Range of Topics
/From a variety of primary sources, and from Mount Vernon to the Far West and back again.
Read MoreBlogging about abolitionist Julia Wilbur, the Civil War, Alexandria, women's rights, and more
From a variety of primary sources, and from Mount Vernon to the Far West and back again.
Read MoreA few notes from Heroines of Mercy Street, by Pamela Toler.
Read MoreOne of the many things I learned this week from Von Barron, aka Captain Turner Kitt, was that no surgeon working in the field, north or south, lasted all four years of the Civil War.
Read MoreAfrican American women made up about 10% of the Union hospital nurse workforce.
Read MorePaula Tarnapol Whitacre's website with a focus on her forthcoming biography on abolitionist Julia Wilbur.