Civil War Women Blog

The Battle for the Wheatfield at the Rose Farm Rose Farm was at the center of some of the fiercest fighting on the second day of the battle,...

One of the First Women Artists in the United States Vinnie Ream (1847–1914) was an American sculptor whose most famous work was the stat...

Soldier Women of the Civil War They were determined to fight, no matter the cost. They dressed in men's clothing and assumed masculi...

Abolitionist and African American Businesswoman S. Epatha Merkerson plays Lydia Hamilton Smith in the film, Lincoln (2012), alongside T...

From the viewpoint of 16-year-old Susan Margaret Chancellor, one of the inhabitants of the Chancellor House, the war brought some exciteme...

Teenage Girl's View of the Battle of Gettysburg Matilda (Tillie) Pierce was born in Gettysburg in 1848. She was 15 at the time of th...

Daughter of Accused Lincoln Assassination Conspirator Anna was only 22 years old when her mother Mary Surratt was sentenced to death as ...

Wife of Confederate General John Bell Hood Anna Marie Hennen was born June 28, 1837. She was the daughter of a prominent New Orleans att...

Savior of Hundreds of Slaves Harriet Tubman is probably the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's conductors . During a ten-...

Fiancee of General John Reynolds Catherine Mary Hewitt became engaged to future Union General John Reynolds in California in the late 18...