Society for Women and the Civil War
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| Society for Women and the Civil War, Inc. Box #9066 8345 NW 66th St. Miami, FL 33166 (804) 244-1864 www.swcw.org |
| Announcing The 10th Conference on Women and the Civil War To Be Held July 25 - 27 2008 in Chambersburg, PA |
The Society for Women and the Civil War has announced the speakers and topics for Women at
Gettysburg: The 10th Conference on Women and the Civil War, scheduled for July 25-27, 2008 at
Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The conference is open to the public for a nominal fee.
Ever wonder about the women who fought in the Civil War disguised as male soldiers? DeAnne Blanton, an
author and military archivist at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., answers this question and more
in her presentation “Women Soldiers at Gettysburg.”
Then, for a look at Gettysburg women like you’ve never seen them before, California historian, teacher, and
author/lecturer Robin Young presents “‘The Very Earth Beneath Our Feet Trembled’: The Vicissitudes
of War and the Businesswomen of Greater Gettysburg.”
Every student of the Civil War has heard about the United States Sanitary Commission and its importance
to the war effort. Now Timothy Daley, Executive Director and Curator of Collections for the Cleveland
(Ohio) Masonic Library & Museum (and Volunteer Program Director for the Cuyahoga County Soldiers’&
Sailors’ Monument in Cleveland, Ohio) offers a new view with “Yes, Virginia, There Were Other Sanitary
Fairs During the Civil War: Cleveland and the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair.”
A woman’s quest to find her father behind enemy lines is the subject of “‘Glory on the Grave’: The Civil
War Legacy of Elizabeth Lyle Saxon,” presented by Chance Harvey, a scholar of Southern literature and
college professor at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
Veterans weren’t the only ones fighting to get military pensions, as Mercedes Graf, an educational
consultant, historian and writer from Illinois, reveals in “The Struggles of Civil War Nurses as They
Encountered the Pension System.”
Brenda McKean, a North Carolina re-enactor, researcher and lecturer, details local women’s wartime
travails in “Some North Carolina Women During the War.”
Also at the conference, Glenna Jo Christen, a Michigan-based author and living historian, presents “In a
Family Way: Clothing for, and Attitudes About, Pregnancy During the Civil War Era.”
If you enjoy researching women’s history, you’ll delight in “Women and the American Civil War: An
Overview of Manuscript Sources at the Library of Congress,” presented by Janice E. Ruth, a
manuscript specialist at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
In this age of e-mail, Maryland researcher and author Susan Youhn reminds us of the importance of pen
and paper in “Letters from Behind the Lines,” an exploration of women’s letters to Confederate prisoners
at Point Lookout, Maryland.
To register for the conference Click Here.