Society for Women and the Civil War
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| The 8th Conference on Women and the Civil War Hood College, Frederick, MD July 21-23 2006 |
Friday July 21
"Women at Antietam" by Betsy Estilow
Ms. Estilow highlights the efforts of women at one of the bloodiest battlefields in history.
Saturday July 22
"Jane Claudia Saunders Johnson and the Struggle to Supply the First Maryland Regiment, CSA"
Presented by Stacy Hampton
Ms. Hampton will showcase the life of Jane Claudia Saunders, who 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” by Kathy Herran
Ms. Herran's 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.
“Strong evidence of your Patriotism:” African American Soldiers’ Aid Societies and the Northern War
Effort by Patricia Louise Richard
Ms. Richard will highlight the 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.
“War? What War?” Civil War in Women’s Periodicals versus Personal Writings" by Juanita Leisch
Jensen
Ms Jensen 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. She will then compare and contrast the war-related content of women’s
periodicals with that found in their diaries, letters and journals.
Sunday, July 23
"Anna Ella Carroll, political advisor to Pres. Abraham Lincoln" by C. Kay Larson
Ms. Larson will focus on Anna Ella 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) by
Kathleen Curtis Wilson
Ms. Wilson showcases the life of Virginian 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" by Dr. Robert Slawson
Dr. Slawson 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 by Derek Allen Clements
Mr. 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.