Women and the War
Alice Thompson, an example of the courageous women of the South. Picking up a fallen battleflag and rallying the Confederate soldiers. From the 1900 issue of Confederate Veteran -- On the morning of March 3, 1863, the battle of Thompson Station was fought. Before day the inhabitants of this little village were in great [...]
Civil War: Women faced danger in roles as spies By SHIRLEY FARRIS JONES Second of three parts When one thinks of a Civil War soldier, a male image usually comes to mind. And, the war was fought largely, but not exclusively, by men. Long ago, someone arrived at a ballpark figure of about 300 [...]
Women of a Different Generation: The Lady Spies and Soldiers of the Civil War. by Sarah Emanuel Before the Women's Liberation movement of the early twentieth century, women of the nineteenth century were making liberations of their own. When the Civil War came along, many ladies were not content to sit home and make bandages, [...]
Women Soldiers of the Civil War By DeAnne Blanton Prologue; Spring 1993, Vol. 25, No. 1 It is an accepted convention that the Civil War was a man's fight. Images of women during that conflict center on self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, or brave ladies maintaining the home front in the absence of their men. The [...]
Becoming a Southern Belle Published Jan 29, 2008 Walk onto the grounds of the historic Athenaeum Rectory in Columbia during the annual 1861 Girls’ School, and you might forget you’re living in the 21st century. For one week in July, the Athenaeum returns to the year 1861, as it provides the backdrop for teenage girls [...]
Original Link: http://www.gendergap.com/military/usmil3.htm Civil War (1861-1865) To the extent that the abolition of slavery was a cause of the Civil War, women’s participation in the abolitionist movement can be viewed as a major factor in the nation going to war. As early as the 1830s women were committed to the effort to abolish slavery. Lydia [...]
Original link: http://thenandnow.bravepages.com/ConfederateWomen.html The Southland's House of Memories Confederate Home for Women Is 'Living, Breathing Shrine' Where Homage to the Mothers Of the South Never Dims By Jack Burgess A home of gleaming white Indiana limestone, beautiful in its simplicity, emulating in its pillared front and classic lines the First Home of the nation, a [...]
Fannie Battle: Confederate ‘spy’ turned social reformer By: MIKE WEST, Managing Editor Posted: Sunday, March 22, 2009 Mary Frances (Fannie) Battle is best known as a social reformer who established one of the first day care centers in America. But she was also a Confederate spy. Born in the Cane Ridge community near the Davidson/Rutherford [...]
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Rebel, yes, but was she a useful spy? By Peter Cliffe SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES On March 17, 1863, Lt. Col. John Pelham, commanding the Horse Artillery, Cavalry Division, of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, was struck by a shell fragment at Kelly's Ford, dying shortly after at Culpeper. Among the [...]
