Past Conference Summary

1^st – 21^st Conferences on Women and the Civil War:

Lists of Topics Featured

 

Occupations / Wartime Roles

 

·         Arsenal employee [includes arsenal disasters] (2)

·         Artist

·         Civil Servant (2)

·         Composer

·         Dress maker / seamstress (5)

·         Doctor (3)

·         Inventor

·         Journalist

·         Laundress

·         Lighthouse keeper

·         Mill worker

·         Nun (4)

·         Nurse & matron (15)

·         Relief Worker (6)

·         Riots (3)

·         Sex Worker (2)

·         Soldier (6)

·         Spy (7)

·         Strategist

·         Teacher (2)

·         Telegraph operator (2)

·         Vivandiere (2)

·         Writer / author (3)

 

 

Historical Topics

·         “camp follower”

·         Children

·         Clothing (3)

·         Confederate Memory (4)

·         Copperheads

·         Courtship

·         Education [female] (2)

·         Flags (3)

·         Going west

·         Homefront turning into the warfront

·         Material culture (2)

·         Mourning

·         Music

·         Pregnancy

·         The Press (4)

·         Rape

·         Religion / Spiritualism (3)

·         Sanitary Fairs (4)

·         Sewing machines

·         Union pensions (4)

·         Widowhood, wartime

·         Wives, military (4)

·         Women as prisoners (2)

·         Women’s roles, survey

·         Women on trial (4)

 

 

Contemporary Topics

 

·         Educational resources (3)

·         Historical research (19)

·         Historic Preservation [collections and sites] (6)

·         Presentations and Exhibits, how to (2)

·         Reenacting / Living History (2)

·         Writing and Publishing (4)

 

 

Minority Populations

 

·         African American Women (16)

·         Indigenous Women

·         Jewish Women

·         Quakers (2)

 

Individual Women

 

Adams, Lois

Aklen, Adelicia

Ballou, Sarah

Barlow, Arabella

Barton, Clara

Bickerdyke, Mary Ann

Blaisdell, Marie

Brownell, Kady

Bucklin, Sophronia

Carroll, Anna Ella

Carter, Martha Williams

Cary, Hetty

Coston, Martha

Curd, Mary Hart

Cushman, Pauline

Cutler, Julia

Dame, Harriet P.

Davis, Varina Howell and Varina Anne

Dawes, Sarah C.

Ford, Antonia

French, Samantha

Fritchie, Barbara

Gates, Mary B.

Gilbert, Sarah A.

Grant, Julia

Green, Mary Jane

Greenhow, Rose O’Neal

Hancock, Myra

Helm, Emilie Todd

Hewitt, Catharine M.

Hook, Frances

Howard, Elizabeth Key

Jackson, Marianna

Johnson, Jane S.

Jones, Clara

Judd, Elizabeth Hunn

Keckley, Elizabeth

Lane, Harriet

Lee, Mary Custis (2)

Lee, Mary Greenhow

Leith, Nellie Chase

Lewis, Maria (2)

Mason, Emily Virginia

McKaig, Priscilla

Moore, Ellen

Noye, Helen

Otey, Lucy Mina

Payne, Kitty

Phelps, Elizabeth

Preston, Margaret Junkin

Ream, Vinnie

Reddon, Laura

Reed, Mary

Saxon, Elizabeth

Smart, Almira Curtis

Stewart, Sally

Sullivan, Mary

Surratt, Mary (2)

Tubman, Harriet

Van Metre, Betty

Wilbur, Julia

Wilson, Eliza

Wright, Rebecca M.

 

 

Organizations

Christian Commission

Gettysburg National Homestead

Nancy Hart Militia

Mount Vernon Ladies Association

Women’s Relief Corps

 

 

Geographic Locations (“women of”)

States:

·         Arkansas (2)

·         Delaware

·         Kentucky

·         Maryland (2)

·         North Carolina (2)

·         Ohio

·         Virginia (3)

 

Regions and Counties:

·         Antietam area of MD (2)

·         Chester Co., PA

·         Coal Region of PA

·         Northern VA

·         Shenandoah Valley, VA

·         Western VA

·         Twin Rivers area of TN

 

Cities and Towns:

·         Albany, NY

·         Atlanta, GA

·         Baltimore, MD (2)

·         Cleveland, OH

·         Gettysburg, PA (2)

·         Philadelphia, PA

·         Marietta, OH

·         Memphis, TN

·         New Market, VA

·         Richmond, VA (2)

·         Washington, DC

·         Williamsburg, VA

·         Wheeling, WV

·         Yorktown, VA

 

 

 

Document Updated: July 27, 2022