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Sullivan Ballou (March 28, 1829 – July 29, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered for an eloquent letter he wrote to his wife Sarah a week before he was mortally wounded in the First Battle of Bull Run. He was left behind by retreating ...
Her letters and their record of her military experiences were discovered more than a century after her death in a relative's attic in 1976. [ 2 ] : 37 Wakeman's letters were subsequently edited and published by Lauren Burgess in 1994 as An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment ...
During the Civil War, Sarah wrote and lectured in support of President Abraham Lincoln. Sarah Moore Grimké was the author of the first developed public argument for women's equality. [citation needed] She worked to rid the United States of slavery, Christian churches which had become "unchristian," and prejudice against African Americans and ...
An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195102437. Velazquez, Loreta (2003). The Woman in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazques, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier. Wisconsin ...
In 1864, Sarah had her diary privately published, printing 200 copies, as a 24-page pamphlet. [5] She gave copies to family and friends who inquired about her experiences during and after the battle. She donated 75 copies of the diary to the commission to be sold to raise funds at the Great Central Fair , held in Philadelphia in June 1864.
Sarah (nickname, "Sallie") Ann Brock was born in Madison County, Virginia, on March 18, 1831. She was the daughter of Ansalem Brock and Elizabeth Beverley Buckner. [2] During the American Civil War, Brock lived with her family in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book. [1] She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
Sarah Jane Foster (October 12, 1839 – June 25, 1868) [1] was an educator of newly-freed blacks in Martinsburg, West Virginia, one of many northern volunteers who travelled south to aid and teach freedmen following the American Civil War.