Women in the Civil War

Women of the American Civil War

http://americancivilwar.com/women/women.html

Biographical information and images are provided for women: North and South and black and white, combatants and workers on the home front, the famous and the neglected. See also American Women's History: A Research Guide at http://www.mtsu.edu/%7Ekmiddlet/history/women/wh-cwar.html .

Civil War Women

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

Papers written by three women are included. One woman was a Confederate spy, another a supporter of the Union, and another a school girl in Union occupied Gallatin , Tennessee .

African American Women Writers of the 19 th Century

http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

This site, created by The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center , includes the full text of fiction, poetry, biography and autobiography, and essays. Some of these deal with slavery and its legacies.

Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/hearts/

Images and commentary explore the various roles played by women, black and white.