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From The Doorstep: Winchester Women Record Evacuation & Occupation, Part 2
This is the final post for “From the Doorstep: Winchester Women.” Part 1 is available here. Mary Greenhow Lee started a letter on March 11, intending to send it to a friend. Instead, she kept writing, writing, writing until November … Continue reading
From The Doorstep: Winchester Women Record Evacuation & Occupation, Part 1
It is a truth (mostly) universally acknowledged that if you want the long version of a story, ask a woman. I say this not as criticism, but rather as praise Civil War women and their primary sources. After recording the … Continue reading
ECW Podcast “Celebrating Women’s History Month” Is Now Available
Looking for some recommended sources or wondering why we’ve voted these diaries among the best from the Civil War homefronts? Curious to learn about ECW managing editor’s thoughts on how military and civilian history fit together? In the new podcast, … Continue reading
“Powerful and Determined”: Susie King Taylor and Her Image as Seen by Stephen Restelli
I could not tell she was African-American in looking at the negative. When I scanned it as viewed her as a positive print, chills went through me. This was the most stunning portrait photograph I have ever seen. And I … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Photography, Slavery
Tagged African American photography, black history, black history month, Black images, black-history-2019, civil war photography, daguereotypes, Samuel William Bridgham, slave photography, Stephen Restelli, Susie King Taylor, U. S. Colored Troops, women's studies
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Susie King Taylor: The First African American Army Nurse
“I was born under the slave law in Georgia, in 1848, and was brought up by my grandmother in Savannah.” So begin the memoirs of Civil War nurse Susie King Taylor, a most unusual woman in many ways. She was … Continue reading
Women’s Reflections on Christmas 1863
This holiday season I came across two Christmas entries in two very different civilian journals. One, tinged with reflective sadness, offers the words of a Virginian girl who has seen war and lost a loved one in the conflict but … Continue reading
Question of the Week: 3/5-3/11/18
March is Women’s History Month, so… Who’s your favorite woman from the Civil War era? Why?
Ice-Skating in the 1860’s
Ice-skating! Across the chilly regions of America, this favorite pastime created fun and energetic entertainment during the Civil War era. In city parks, the winter activity was refined as a social skill and art while on less sophisticated ponds or … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays
Tagged central park, Christmas, health, holiday season, ice skating, Lucy Buck, William P. Lamson, winter, women's fashion, women's studies
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