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Emilie "Emily" Frances Davis (February 18, 1839 – December 26, 1889) was a free African American woman living in Philadelphia during the American Civil War.She wrote three pocket diaries for the years 1863, 1864, and 1865 recounting her perspective on the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the mourning of President Lincoln. [1]
Her letters remain one of the few surviving primary accounts of female soldiers in the American Civil War. [27] [28] Laura J. Williams was a woman who disguised herself as a man and used the alias Lt. Henry Benford in order to raise and lead a company of Texas Confederates. She and the company participated in the Battle of Shiloh. [29] [30]
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
On June 19, or Juneteenth as it's more colloquially known, we celebrate the final emancipation of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 when word reached the state that the Civil War was ...
The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl is a diary written by Eliza Frances Andrews during the American Civil War. It focuses on the daily life of a young girl living in the Confederate States of America during the conflict. It was published in 1908 in New York by D. Appleton and Company and is freely available in the public domain. [1]
The "hard war" doctrine in Civil War historiography first appeared in quotes from Sherman's correspondence, specifically during the interim ten days between his March to the Sea and Carolinas campaign. He first distinguished between "this war" and "European wars in particular": Union soldiers were "not only fighting hostile armies, but a ...
Only one adult out of ten was a woman, and most girls over 15 were already engaged. White men, and women of the Salish tribes, did not always feel mutually attracted. Prostitutes were also scarce, until the arrival of John Pennell and his brothel from San Francisco. In 1864, Asa Mercer decided to go east to find women willing to relocate to ...
The Florence Stockade was built and became operational in September 1864, and was in operation during the final fall and winter of the war. Overall in command was Lt. Col. John Iverson, of the 5th Georgia Infantry but the officer in charge of the stockade (a position comparable to that of Henry Wirz at Andersonville Prison) was Lt. James Barrett, also of the 5th Georgia. [2]