Women in the Civil War: Primary and Curricular Materials

Coming of the War

    Abolition

• Antislavery and women’s rights  http://www.osv.org/education/docs/antislavery

•   Elizabeth Cady Stanton http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-5090.html

•  Sojourner Truth  http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm 

• Susan B. Anthony  http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/newsarch/02_03/Current/celeb/anthony.htm

• Abolition and Suffrage http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/index.html?body=abolitionists.html

• The “little lady” who started “this big war.”  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/harris/utc/resources.html

    Women on the Home front  

• Women on both sides are patriotic and show enthusiastic support of the war•         http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/hearts/patriot.html 

• Romanovich, Jan P. United States Sanitary Commission 1997-2001 http://www.netwalk.com/~jpr/.  

• Soldier supply http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/hearts/warwork.htm

•  Romanovich, Jan P. United States Sanitary Commission 1997-2001 http://www.netwalk.com/~jpr/.

Labor

• Allegheny Arsenal  http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~jw3u/round/arsenal.htm
  Explosion Heroine Honored   
     http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/lawrenceville/law_n41.html
  Monument     http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tandnmca/civilwar/alarsenal.html  

Nurses

• Clara Barton National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/clba

• Women’s History Lesson Plans http://www.suite101.com/mypage.cfm/womens_history/236

• Jane Swisshelm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAswisshelm.htm

• Alcott, Lousia May.  Hospital Sketches. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/wright2/wright2-0031

• Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon. Half a Century. (Search for the  title at the American Memory site) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html

• Taylor, Susie King. Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, Late1st South Carolina Volunteers: A Black Woman's Civil War Memories. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylorsu/taylorsu.html

• Clara Barton National Historic Site. Clara Barton National Historic Site, National Parks Service,  http://www.nps.gov/clba/

• Women in the Civil War: Five Nurses from Saint Lawrence County Saint Lawrence County, New York Branch of the American Association of University Women. http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/nurses.htm

Physicans

•  Mary Walker http://ngeorgia.com/people/walker.html  

Freedmen’s Teachers

• Laura Towne      http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/lauratowne.html

• Faulkner, Carol. Women and the Freedmen's Aid Movement Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton, 11-02 1999 http://womhist.binghamton.edu/aid/intro.htm

Spies
 http://womenshistory.about.com/library/misc/cw/bl_cw_spies_union.htm

• Belle Boyd http://docsouth.unc.edu/boyd/boyd1.html

•  Elizabeth Van Lew http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_elizabeth_van_lew.htm

• Van Lew and Mary Elizabeth Bowser http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1038.html

• Boyd, Belle. Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, Written by Herself.   http://docsouth.unc.edu/boyd/boyd1.html  Volume 1   http://docsouth.unc.edu/boyd/boyd2.html   Volume 2 

• Edmonds, Sarah Emma. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields. http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABV2963

• Greenhow, Rose O'Neal. My Imprisonment and the First Years of Abolition Rule at Washington. http://docsouth.unc.edu/greenhow/menu.html

Women in Camp

•  Major Belle Reynolds  http://www.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisAlive/files/pe/htm4/pe001092.cf

• Annie Etheridge http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1035.html • 

• Taylor, Susie King. Reminiscences of My Life in Camp… http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylorsu/taylorsu.html

• Brigit Divers      http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/champions/BridgetDivers.pdf

• Annie Etheridge  http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1035.html

• Taylor, Susie King. Reminiscences of My Life in Camp… http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylorsu/taylorsu.html

Female Soldiers

• Sarah Emma Edmonds  http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_sarah_emma_edmonds.htm  Edmonds, Sarah Emma. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABV2963 

• Velazquez, Loreta Janeta. Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States  Army http://docsouth.unc.edu/velazquez/menu.html

• Blanton, DeAnne. Women Soldiers of the Civil War National Archives http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/spring_1993_women_in_the_civil_war_1.html   •

• Livermore, D.R. Women in Union Armies: Civil War and Reconstruction: North during the Civil War: Women in Union Armies Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/civilwar/northwar/women.html .

Southern Women and the War

• Hearts at Home   http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/hearts/yankee.html

• Avary, M.L. Virginia Girl in the Civil War, Being the Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer: http://docsouth.unc.edu/avary/menu.html .

• Dawson, Sarah Morgan. Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan. http://docsouth.unc.edu/dawson/menu.html .

• Fearn, Frances H. Diary of a Refugee   http://docsouth.unc.edu/fearn/fearn.html .

• LeConte, Emma. Diary, 1864-1865. http://docsouth.unc.edu/leconteemma/leconte.html.

• Bread Riots http://americanhistory.about.com/library/prm/blrichmondbreadriots2.htm

• Refugee Life  http://americanhistory.about.com/library/prm/blrichmondbreadriots2.htm

After the War

• Greater educational opportunities for women   http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/students/his3464y/grinberg+perry/civil.html

• Women’s Christian Temperance Union http://www.wctu.org/history.html

Other Sources of Primary and Curricular Information

•  Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

•  Women in the War http://www.americancivilwar.com/women/women.html

• Valley of the Shadow—Two Communities at War   http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ •

• American Memory    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/spies/sassign.html   

• women's roles--  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/spies/sassign.html

• children's lives -- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/civilwar/images.html

•  Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/107_civw.html•  

•  American Civil War - Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/diaries.htm

•  Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/107_civw.html•   

• Images  http://www.educationplanet.com/search/redirect?id=66634&mfcount=369&mfkw=civil_war •  

• Integrating Material Into Instruction: http://www.smplanet.com/civilwar/civilwar.html

• Lesson Plans•         http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webquests/civilwarlife/women.html