Based on an extensive collection of letters written from the home front and the battlefront,
Family War Stories offers fresh insights into how the reciprocal nature of family …

This volume reveals how an ordinary American couple, Cimbaline and Henry Fike, wrote
their way through struggles that challenged the survival of both their nation and marriage …

In July 1863, Jefferson Davis was stabbed. To understand the attack, one needs to begin
earlier in the war, when Davis's eldest brother, Joseph E. Davis, had moved belongings from …

By the spring of 1863, no military commander seemed capable of suppressing the irregular
violence that raged along the Kansas-Missouri border. The partisan warfare that began five …

While visiting Gettysburg National Military Park in 1899, a small group of the Iowa Woman's
Relief Corps (WRC) broke away from its delegation to visit the home and gravesite of Mary …

This thesis explores the experiences of Northern New England women during the Civil War.
Though these women were physically distant from the frontlines, the war came to their …

Northern New England women took political action during the US Civil War to protect and
maintain their households by forming and expressing political identities. They sought to …

When the Civil War began, Emily Quiner was a middle-class schoolteacher in Madison,
Wisconsin. When news about the attack on Fort Sumter was announced, Emily immediately …

Abstract “'Our Women Are Made of the Right Stuff:'Gender, Politics, and Conflict in Civil War
West Virginia” examines the lives and contributions of white West Virginia women and …

Frances Dallam Peter was just eigh teen years old when the Civil War began. She was a
young, unmarried woman living in Lexington, Kentucky; her diary explores the war time …