Society for Women and the Civil War
Society for Women and the Civil War, Inc.
Box #9066
8345 NW 66th St.
Miami, FL 33166
(804) 244-1864
www.swcw.org
Lucy Bailey
Singing Schools, Socials and Sledding: Glimpses from the Ohio Home Front  2009
union soldier (forthcoming, 2009) which presents and analyzes 168 letters that school friends, love interests, and “fair unknowns”
solicited through correspondence ads wrote to one Lieutenant in the 43rd Ohio.  In addition to ongoing work on these historical
documents, Ms. Bailey is conducting research for a book that analyzes didactic texts one female educator wrote during the 19th
century, including the Civil War years.