Society for Women and the Civil War
Society for Women and the Civil War, Inc.
Box #9066
8345 NW 66th St.
Miami, FL 33166
(804) 244-1864
www.swcw.org
Past Conference Presentations by Year
This page provides a list of all past SWCW Conference Presentations by Year
Bailey, Dr. Candace
Becoming Useful: Confederate Women Composers
Confer, Dr. Clarissa
Cherokee Women
Jensen, Les
Depot Women Unknown Backbone of the Confederacy
Latimer, Marian
The Woman Major General John Fulton Reynolds Left Behind (Catherine Mary
Hewett)
Pilato, Denise E.
Martha J. Costen: An Illuminating History
Schriber, Dr. Carolyn P.
Nellie Chase Leath: Civil War Nurse with Attitude
Stokes, Robin
Women of Philadelphia
White, Jonathan W.
Copperhead Women
Williams, Florence K.
The Role of Chester County Women in the Great Fair
2006 - 8th Conference
Clements, Derek Allen
Veterans as much as the gray, battle-scarred old soldiers: Independent Memorial
Groups, Civil War Memory and Arkansas Women
2007 - 9th Conference
Year
Presenter
Presentation Title
Hampton, Stacy
Jane Claudia Saunders Johnson and the Struggle to Supply the First Maryland
Regiment, C.S.A.
Herran, Kathy
They Married Confederate Officers
Jensen, Juanita Leisch
War? What War? Civil War in Women's Periodicals versus Personal Writings
Larson, C. Kay
Anna Ella Carroll, Political Advisor to President Abraham Lincoln
Richard, Patricia Louise
Strong Evidence of Your Patriotism: African American Soldiers Aid Societies and the
Northern War Effort
Slawson, Dr. Robert
Female Physicians in the Civil War Armies
Wilson, Kathleen Curtis
Precariously Balanced between North and South: Survival in Enemy Territory, The
Civil War Experience of a
Virginia Woman Living in New York City Mary Sullivan (1836 - 1933)
2005 - 7th Conference
Betts, Vicki
Patriotism and Practicality; Civil War Era Homespun Dresses
Coles, David
Mary Martha Reid and the Florida Hospital in Richmond
Curran, Thomas
Calling on the Female Prisoners: Maintaining Gender Relationships in Alton Military
Prison during the Civil War
Davis, William
Confederate Women and the Cult of Sacrifice
DeAngelis, Meg Galante
Wee the People: The Patriotic Work of Children During the Civil War
Elbert, Monika
Elizabeth Phelp's Gothic Civil War: A Northern Writer Communing with the Spirits of
the Dead
Henderson, Anita
Maria Lewis, Black Female Trooper of the 8th NY Cavalry: A Methodology
Jordan, Saundra
Mary Todd Lincoln Remembers
King, Wendy
The Union Army vs. Mary Jane Green: The Rebel Who Would Not Be Tamed
2004 - 6th Conference
Arpad, Dr. Susan
The Civil War Diary of a Good Woman: Mary Samuella Hart Curd
Ferrari, Pepita
The UnSexing of Emma Edmonds
Harding-Peets, Dr. Gwen
The 'Fairer' Sex of the 1860's: How Patriotic Women Raised Money in Support of the
Union
Lowry, Dr. Thomas and Beverly
Women on Trial: The Courts-Martial of Southern Women by the Union Army
Mescher, Virginia
Period Correct: 19th Century Sanitary Protection
Perry, John
History Done Her Wrong: The True Story of Mary Custis Lee
Richard, Patricia Louise
Listen Ladies One and All: Northern Soldiers Yearn for Their 'Fair Cousins of the
North'
Timor, Karen
The Stories Behind the Socks: Women's Handiwork as Social and Political
Expresssion
Topping, Elizabeth
The Horizontal Trade
Young, Robin
Soliloquy for Sarah (Sara Hart Shumway Ballou)
2001 - 5th Conference
Anthony, Susan
Copyrights and Copy Wrongs
Bartlett, Sara
Kady Brownell: A Tall and Taller Tale
Clinton, Catherine
The Union's Secret Weapon: Harriet Tubman's Military Career
Curran, Thomas
Making War on Women and Women Making War: Confederate Women, Union Army
Policy and the Military Prisons of St. Louis During the Civil War
DeAngelis, Meg Galante
Take Your Gun and Go: Images of Women in the Civil War Era Songs & Ballads
Graf, Mercedes
The Role of Women Physicians in the Civil War
Heatwole, John
"Play Dixie for Me:" Oral History and the Women of West Virginia
Ledoux, Thomas
Betty Van Metre: Vermont's Rebel Heroine
Mangus, Dr. Michael
A Heavy Responsibility: Women and Men in Civil War Northern Virginia
Materma, Zsun-nee Kimball
Madame Elizabeth: From Plantation to the Lincoln White House
Mehaffey, Karen Rae
They Called Her Captain: The Amazing Life of Emily Virginia Mason
Thomas, Sarah Sites
The Ties of the Past: The Gettysburg Diaries of Salome Myers Stewart, 1854-1922
2000 - 4th Conference
Berkey, Jonathan
"So You Wonder That I Get The Blues?" Ellen Moore's Wartime Negotiations
Blumberg, Richard J.
"A Teacher, an Agent and an Angel to Her State:" The Life of Cordelia P. Harvey
Ernst, Kathleen
"We Live in Fear." Maryland Women and the Antietam Campaign
Estilow, Betsy
"If She Had Been A Man, She Would Have Been A Major General," The Story of
Mother Bickerdyke
Leasher, Evelyn
Lois Adams: Federal Government Clerk During the Civil War
Leisch, Juanita
"Free to Teach, Free to Learn, Free to Choose:" Yankee Schoolmistresses and
Former Slaves in the South
Melchiori, Marie V.
Using Medical Records at the National Archives
Petite, Deborah
Roswell Grey: The Arrest and Deporations of North Georgia Mill Workers
Swick, Gerald D.
Emilie Todd Helm: Lincoln's Beloved Rebel Sister-in-law
Tennery, Katherine
Shaping Your Research into a Book
Tice, Douglas O.
Families Under Stress: The Richmond Bread Riot
Trindal, Elizabeth
Mary Surratt: An American Tragedy
Weidman, Budge
"Poverty is No Disgrace, but Very Unhandy. Please Come Home:" Correspondence
Between the Families and Men of the U. S. Colored Troops
1999 - 3rd Conference
Christen, Bill
Miss Major Pauline Cushman
Christie, Jeanne Marie
"I Am Thankful To Be Strong Enough To Help:" Jewish Women of Richmond
Conklin, Eileen
Exile to Sweet Dixie: Euphemia Goldsborough, Confederate Nurse and Smuggler
Gross, Jennifer L.
Confederate Widowhood in Virginia
Hoisington, Daniel J.
"Who Is To Measure Your Ability?" Women and the Christian Commission
Krowl, Michelle
African-American Women and Relations with 'the State' in Civil War Virginia
Lowry, Beverly
Camp Followers: Prostitutes and Other Fascinating Women
McNeil, Sister Betty Ann
Compassion in the Civil War - The Role of the Daughters of Charity
Mehaffey, Karen Rae
Rachel Weeping for Her Children: Women and the Rituals of Mourning During the
American Civil War
Stanely, Autumn
A Divided Family in Occupied Memphis
Youhn, Susan
The Lives of the General's Wives (or if the Army Wanted You to Have a Wife, They
Would Have Issued You One
With Your Rifle)
1998 - 2nd Conference
Austin, Deborah & Hawkins, Susan
Women of the Twin Rivers, TN
Clunies, Sandra
Women Lighthouse Keepers 1861-1865
Heidorf, Christine
A Hand to Work and a Heart to Feel: The Albany, NY Relief Association and War
Relief During the Civil War
Hughes, Susan Lyons
My Old Kentucky Home at War
Jones, Judy Yaeger
In a Moment of Girlish Caprice She Signed Her Name 'Howard Glyndon:' The
Remarkable Journalism Career of Laura Catherine Redden
Leisch, Juanita & Rose, Becky
Banners, Flags and Colors
Lowry, Thomas
Before the Court: Women in the Union Courts-Martial Records
Maher, Sister Mary Denis
"My Dear Bishop:" Letters from a Catholic Sister Nurse in a Virginia Confederate
Hospital to Charleston,
S.C. Bishop Patrick Lynch in Charleston, S.C.
Phipps, Sheila
"Decency Compels Me to Employ My Fingers:" The Housekeeping Warfare of Mary
Greenhow Lee
Richards, Danielle
Remember the Ladies: Women's War Efforts in the Pennsylvania Coal Region
Sorenson, Leni
The Camp Laundress
1997 - 1st Conference
Blanton, Deanne & Cook-Burgess,
Lauren
Female Soldiers
Dicken-Garcia, Hazel & Cramer, Janet
Media and Women During the Civil War
Jepsen, Thomas
Women Telegraph Operators in the Civil War
Leonard, Elizabeth
What's In A Name? Gendering the Civil War
Mehaffey, Karen Rae
For Righteousness' Sake; Christianity and Women of the Confederacy
Melchiori, Marie V.
But Grandma Didn't Carry a Gun (Researching Women at the National Archives)
Roca, Steven
Permission to Come Aboard: Women Nurses on the USS Red Rover 1861-1865
Schultz, Jane
Lead, Blook & Ink: Family, Nation and Sentiment in Civil War Correspondence
Van Zelm, Antoinette
Female Citizens on the Domestic Front: Slaves and Mistresses in Civil War Virginia