Women in the Civil War 

Starting Points: 

• Civil War Women On-Line Archival Collections Duke University, Special Collections Library http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html
• First-Person Narratives of the American South; Documenting the American South (Project) Academic Affairs Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/fpn.html .
• Dakota State University, Madison, SD. American Civil War: Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs  http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/diaries.htm .
• Middleton, Ken. American Women's History: A Research Guide the Civil War Period Middle Tennessee State University Library. http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet /history/women/wh-cwar.html#bio

Collections: 

• Brockett, L. P. The Camp, the Battle Field, and the Hospital: Or, Lights and Shadows of the Great Rebellion. Including Adventures of Spies and Scouts, Thrilling Incidents, Daring Exploits, Heroic Deeds, Wonderful Escapes, Sanitary and Hospital Scenes, Prison Scenes... Philadelphia, PA: National publishing Co., 1892. Making of America digital library collection at: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ADG9653
• Moore, Frank. Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice. Hartford, CT: S.S Scranton, 1867.  http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABV3165
• Allen, Susan , and Mary Rockwell. Ladies, Contraband and Spies: Women in the Civil War Library of Congress, American Memory Project.  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/01/spies/index.html .
• Civil War Related Links Seven United States Civil War Center.  http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/links/links7.htm .
• Jordan, Ervin L , and Michele Ostrow. Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War University of Virginia; Library; Special Collections http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/hearts/ .
• Making of America University of Michigan and Cornell University.  http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/.
• North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998-  http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/neh.html
• The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865, Documenting the American South University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.   http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/index.html    
• Women's Activities during the Civil War: A Select List of Photographs Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/107%5Fcivw.html

 Soldiers’ Aid: 

• Gunn, Virginia. Western Reserve Women and the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1861-1865 Western Reserve Historical Society, http://www.cwru.edu/edocs/4/234.pdf .
• Romanovich, Jan P. United States Sanitary Commission 1997-2001 http://www.netwalk.com/~jpr/.

Nurses and Relief Agents: 

• 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

Freedmen’s Aid 

• 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 .

Economic Challenges and Opportunities: 

• Jepsen, Thomas C. Women Telegraph Operators in the Civil War Jepsen, Thomas C., 1997 http://www.mindspring.com/~tjepsen/civilwar.htm .
• Jordan, Ervin L., and Michele Ostrow. Hard Times at Home: Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War University of Virginia.; Library.; Special Collection. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/hearts/hard.html

 Women in the War Zone:

• Avary, M.L. Virginia Girl in the Civil War, Being the Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officert: 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 .

• Lunt, Dolly Burge. The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1848-1879. http://docsouth.unc.edu/burge/menu.html .

Spies and Scouts:

•  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
• Mary Elizabeth Bowser Richmond Newspapers, Inc., February 1, 2002 http://www.timesdispatch.com/blackhistory/MGBQM54OAIC.html .
• Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers: An on-Line Archival Collection The Digital Scriptorium, Special Collections Library, Duke University, 1996 http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/greenhow/ .

  Women in Camp:

• 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  

• Collis, Septima Maria (Levy). Septima Maria Levy Collis: A Woman's War Record, 1861-1865 Documenting the American South, 1889 http://docsouth.unc.edu/collis/menu.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 .

Political and Military Wives and Daughters:      

• Chesnut, Mary.  A Diary From Dixie.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/chesnut/maryches.html .

Images

• New York Public Library Digital Library Collections--Images of African Americans from the 19th century.  http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/
• Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet: Photographs and Prints http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html#photos

Other sources of Primary and Curricular Information

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