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 |
| Speakers Named for "Women and the Civil War" 2008 Conference!! |
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 a 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.
The Society for Women and the Civil War is an organization dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding of
women’s lives and roles in the American Civil War through original and innovative research. Its members include
authors, independent and affiliated researchers, scholars of all disciplines, genealogists, archivists, museum
professionals, librarians, students, historians, teachers and re-enactors.
NOTE: The SWCW’s 2008 conference takes place three weeks after the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
The lives of women in that area and their roles during this pivotal battle will be addressed in the conference’s field trips
and some of its presentations.
For more information, contact the Society for Women and the Civil War Inc., Box 9066, 8345 NW 66th St., Miami, FL
33166, (804) 244-1864; www.swcw.org.
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 a 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.
The Society for Women and the Civil War is an organization dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding of
women’s lives and roles in the American Civil War through original and innovative research. Its members include
authors, independent and affiliated researchers, scholars of all disciplines, genealogists, archivists, museum
professionals, librarians, students, historians, teachers and re-enactors.
NOTE: The SWCW’s 2008 conference takes place three weeks after the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
The lives of women in that area and their roles during this pivotal battle will be addressed in the conference’s field trips
and some of its presentations.
For more information, contact the Society for Women and the Civil War Inc., Box 9066, 8345 NW 66th St., Miami, FL
33166, (804) 244-1864; www.swcw.org.