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| 2006 Conference The Society has held conferences highlighting the Women's Role during the Civil War for nearly 10 years. Here are some of the conferences and their presentations. |
“Jane Claudia Saunders Johnson and the Struggle to Supply the First Maryland Regiment, C.S.A.” Presented by Stacy
Hampton
“Maryland’s “Mrs. General” Outfitted An Entire Confederate Battalion,” so read the program at the May 1962 dedication ceremony of the memorial showcase to
General and Mrs. Bradley T. Johnson at the Warren Rifles Confederate Museum in Front Royal, Virginia. Jane Claudia Saunders played a major role in the history
of her husband’s First Maryland Regiment, C.S.A during the Civil War.
“They Married Confederate Officers” Presented by Kathy Herran
Like the presenter’s book by the same title, this presentation will center on the lives of six sisters, the daughters of Dr. Robert Hall Morrison, who married prominent
Confederate officers. One was the second wife and widow of Confederate Lieutenant General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. The women are shown to be women of
fortitude and character with achievements in writing, music, art, and architecture. The presentation seeks to illustrate their capabilities as progressive women of the
nineteenth century and as "forgotten" survivors of the American Civil War.
“Strong evidence of your Patriotism:” African American Soldiers’ Aid Societies and the Northern War Effort.
Presented by Patricia Louise Richard
Not long after black troops were accepted into the ranks of the Union army in 1863, black women began organizing into solders’ aid societies across the North and
even in Union- occupied parts of the South. The task of this presentation is to consider African American women’s aid society work for the northern war effort. It will
also look at the kinds of obstacles that black women confronted in attempting to serve their country. It is the presenter’s intent to uncover the society contributions
of African American women and show, as George Stephens noted, their “patriotism, intelligence and noble-heartedness.”
“War? What War?” Civil War in Women’s Periodicals versus Personal Writings
Presented by Juanita Leisch Jensen
This presentation quantifies the war-related content –visual and verbal – found in women’s periodicals published during the Civil War and analyzes historians’
reactions to that war content. It then compares and contrasts the war-related content of women’s periodicals with that found in their diaries, letters and journals.
Sunday (9am to 3pm )
"Anna Ella Carroll, political advisor to Pres. Abraham Lincoln" Presented by C. Kay Larson
Anna Ella Carroll was a Civil War era politician, pamphleteer, legal scholar, and military strategist who made important contributions to democracy's survival.
Contrary to previous authors who have presented Carroll as being everything from a veritable criminal, to a liar and huckster, Larson’s research, arguably, defines
her as the most important woman involved in mainstream politics in the nineteenth century and a true heroine of the Civil War. In this talk, Larson will focus on
Carroll’s less well-known activities; as a campaign manager, pamphleteer, and aide to Maryland Gov. Thomas H. Hicks during the secession crisis in the spring of
1861
“Precariously Balanced between North and South: Survival in Enemy Territory”
The Civil War Experience of a Virginia Woman Living in New York City Mary Sullivan (1836-1933) Presented by
Kathleen Curtis Wilson
Living in New York City but fighting for her Virginia homeland, Mary Sullivan used her iron will and persuasive Southern charm to challenge Union authority and
cross enemy lines to help friends and family in the South. Mary found ways to comfort Confederate prisoners of war and leave a lasting legacy in spite of being
labeled as a dangerous woman, kept under surveillance and thwarted by General Dix at every turn.
Female Physician in the Civil War Armies Presented by Dr. Robert Slawson
This presentation highlights the work of women physicians involved in patient care of soldiers in both armies during the Civil War, including women who actually
worked as surgeons and provided direct patient care for active duty soldiers; women who were denied access to patient care as surgeons but their labors were
accepted as nurses either directly by the armies or though state and local aid societies; and women who had no formal medical training before the war worked as
nurses during the war and then pursued a medical education after the war.
“Veterans as much as the gray, battle-scarred old soldiers”: Independent Memorial Groups, Civil War Memory, and
Arkansas Women, 1865-1899 Presented by Derek Allen Clements
Using Arkansas as his backdrop, Clements discusses the changing role of women in the post-Civil War environment by analyzing the activities of independent
memorial groups such as the Southern Memorial Association of Washington County and the Phillips County Memorial Association. Not only did women in these
Arkansas groups maintain some hold upon their expanded sphere of influence during wartime, but they also interjected their opinions into Arkansas Civil War
memory through memorial services, graveyard building, and monument construction.
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