Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 10:55:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: Michael Fuller <mfuller%artsci.wustl.edu@KSUVM.KSU.EDU>
Joe,
Your question is hotly debated by the people who do living
history programs. Many women have argued that women actively visited the
camps. One line of evidence comes from the published reminiscences of
women. Here are two sources; Mrs. Hill's journal should be of special
interest because she was a resident of St. Louis.
Hill, Sarah Jane Full
1980 Mrs. Hill's Journal - Civil War Reminiscences. Edited by Mark M.
Krug. Lake side Press, Chicago.
Livermore, Mary A.
1890 My Story of the War: A woman's narrative of four years personal
experience. A. D. Worthington & Co., Hartford, CT.
Massey, Mary Elizabeth
1966 Women in the Civil War. Univ. of Nebraska Press, LIncoln
The last source had a nice sentence about the variety of women in
Confederate camps: "the officers' families, the cooks and laundresses,
and the prostitutes... soldiers, spies, scouts, and couriers."
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