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WANT TO SHARE YOUR RESEARCH?
The Society for Women and the Civil War provides a number of opportunities for researchers desiring to
share their research, including
• Publishing article in our e-journal, At Home and In the Field (Click here to contact our editor).
• Creating Tabletop displays at conferences (Click here to contact our conference coordinator).
• Presenting at a conference. Presenters are selected through a process of submitted papers:
Guidelines that are published in the spring of each year. (Click here for guidelines for papers).
Papers are due in the fall, and the selection is made in the fall and winter for a conference the following
July.
The Society for Women and the Civil War provides a number of opportunities for researchers desiring to
share their research, including
• Publishing article in our e-journal, At Home and In the Field (Click here to contact our editor).
• Creating Tabletop displays at conferences (Click here to contact our conference coordinator).
• Presenting at a conference. Presenters are selected through a process of submitted papers:
Guidelines that are published in the spring of each year. (Click here for guidelines for papers).
Papers are due in the fall, and the selection is made in the fall and winter for a conference the following
July.
9th Conference July 27 - 29, 2007 Inn at Chester Springs, Exton, PA
8th Conference July 21-23, 2006 Hood College, Frederick, MD
7th Conference June 3 - 5, 2005 Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, VA Tech University,
Blacksburg, VA
"The story of the war will never be fully or fairly written if the achievements of women in it are untold." Frank Moore, Women of the War.
Blacksburg, VA
"The story of the war will never be fully or fairly written if the achievements of women in it are untold." Frank Moore, Women of the War.
6th Conference June 24 - 26 2004 Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA
2nd Conference June 26 - 28, 1998 Hood College, Frederick, MD
4th Conference April 7 - 9 2000 Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA
"We say that it was a stupendous struggle, which gave to every man, woman and child in the country something to do and
something to suffer, calling on each to renounce some pleasure and take up some burden..." Charlotte McKay, Stories of Hospital
and Camp.
"We say that it was a stupendous struggle, which gave to every man, woman and child in the country something to do and
something to suffer, calling on each to renounce some pleasure and take up some burden..." Charlotte McKay, Stories of Hospital
and Camp.
5th Conference June 15 - 17, 2001 Hood College, Frederick, MD
"My dear, I am almost crazy about your trouble. It will kill me, I know, for I can not eat or sleep. I am alsways thinking of you...If I could
see you, that day would be the happiest day on earth to me to meet with the one I love as dear as my life." Letter to Willie H. Dave,
Conferate prisoner at Point Lookout, MD from his wife, Amanda. May 28, 1865
"My dear, I am almost crazy about your trouble. It will kill me, I know, for I can not eat or sleep. I am alsways thinking of you...If I could
see you, that day would be the happiest day on earth to me to meet with the one I love as dear as my life." Letter to Willie H. Dave,
Conferate prisoner at Point Lookout, MD from his wife, Amanda. May 28, 1865
3rd Conference June 25 - 27, 1999 Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA
"I can retake the Valley and rejoin General McDowell but you must send new men to keep it. The women will take it if we don't." From
a letter of BG James Shields to Sec. of War Edwin Stanton, May 27, 1862
"I can retake the Valley and rejoin General McDowell but you must send new men to keep it. The women will take it if we don't." From
a letter of BG James Shields to Sec. of War Edwin Stanton, May 27, 1862
1st Conference June 27 - 29, 1997 Hood College, Frederick, MD
"The tears would assert themselves and fall upon lead stained with blood..."God of mercy, if this be Thy hold will, give me fortitude
to bear in uncomplainingly,' was the heart-felt invocatin that wen up to the throne of grace from over lead, blood and tears, that
fearful day." Mary Gay, Life in Dixie During the War, 1897
"The tears would assert themselves and fall upon lead stained with blood..."God of mercy, if this be Thy hold will, give me fortitude
to bear in uncomplainingly,' was the heart-felt invocatin that wen up to the throne of grace from over lead, blood and tears, that
fearful day." Mary Gay, Life in Dixie During the War, 1897
2002 - 2003 No Conference Held These Years.