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Women’s Resources

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Women and the War

 

American Civil War – Women in the Civil War

A small but useful set of links from the Dakota State site.

 

Civil War Women: Primary sources – Duke University

Contains links to a dozen sources of primary source material from women of all walks of life who wrote diaries during the Civil War. Also includes a link to Civil War pictures of women.

 

Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War

 

Women

A large set of United States Civil War Center links to the feminine involvement in the war and the home front. Also contains links to individual personalities.

 

Women and the American Civil War

A comprehensive site that provides links to all aspects of women in the Civil War.

 

Women Soldiers of the Civil War

Unlike most sources this one purports to only deal with women who can be proven through records to have served in the military.

 

Bread Riot "Starving Women In Richmond" April 2, 1863

 

Christmas in the Confederate White House

 

Civil War Makeshifts

 

Civilian Strife

 

Home Guard in 1865

 

Home Front

 

Humorous Homefront

 

Keeping the Home Fires Burning

 

Rebel "Paul Revere"

 

Reverend William H. Robinson: From Log Cabin to the Pulpit

 

Sherman's Army Plunders a Georgia Plantation

 

Southern Homefront, 1861-1865

 

The Wisconsin Homefront

 

Women of the American Civil War

 

Women Soldiers and Nurses

 

Civil War Quilt Patterns

 

Civilian Guides

Clara Barton
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Col. John R. Coxe, A.C.S., and lady seated before his log-cabin_edited-1

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