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Today is International Women's Day and the Immigration Forum is celebrating by recalling the women of the Civil War Era, immigrant and native-born.
ThanksWonderful thread.
A great shout out.Love this thread, Pat, thank you!
I'd like to give a shout-out to the many women who stayed home and organized or contributed to efforts to send those extra needed supplies or support the efforts of not only nurses but those providing invalid diets, clean linens, and other basic amenities to those hospitalized. And the many who endured hardships keeping their farms, businesses, families going while their husbands/male relatives were serving in the army.
Some references:
Mary Livermore, My Story of the War (see my avatar)
Judith Ann Giesberg, Civil War Sisterhood: The U. S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition, and Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front
Nina Silber, Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War
And that wonderful study of southern women during the war: Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention.
I wore my best red shirt today!Thank you, Pat, for standing up in honor of International's Women's Day.