Our Sisters Of The War, Comprehensively

[JPK Huson 1863]

Work in progress, please note.

This thread is intended as a quick find, comprehensive overview of female Giants and Shorter Giants of the Civil War and the Civil War era. In no particular order, one woman per post, we're hoping to identify and list as many of our Sisters who impacted events in whatever way through those tumultuous years as is possible. Hopefully and helpfully, there will then be added a link to the stickie with a comprehensive bio on that person.

No matter, the years 1861 through 1865, perhaps some time pre and post, how significant the contribution(s), enslaved, free, wife, soldier, daughter, spy, freedom worker, sister, veritable martyr, leader, daughter- friend- we hope to acknowledge them here.

Please feel free to add some lovely Sister. For this thread, please do keep the mention of her very brief, photos yes, long bios please no? We've been told we may have links which make it simple to link the two, the main purpose of this thread will be to be able to acknowledge each one, then see her memorial here if there is one. If not, please anyone feel free to create one, we'll insert a link afterwards.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Varina Davis, daughter Winnie, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis- pic circa 1865.
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/varina-banks-howell-davis.92802/

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Julia Dent Grant, wife of Union General U. ' S' Grant, later President of the United States


http://civilwartalk.com/threads/julia-dent-grant.90011/

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/harriet-tubman-a-daunting-project-for-a-thread.95098/
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/harriet-tubman.90359/

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Clara Barton, Nurse, Activist

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/clara-barton-at-chantilly.94019/
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/clara-barton.3812/

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Mary Chestnut

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/mary-chestnut.78196/
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/mary-chestnut-on-braxton-bragg.100937/
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/mary-chestnuts-use-of-tell-it-to-the-marines.8132/
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/mary-chestnuts-civil-war-pulitzer-prize-1982-reference-work.6153/
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/mary-chestnuts-diary.778/

 

[donna]

This is a great thread. I love picture of Mrs. Davis and Winnie. It shows such tenderness between a mother and her child.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/alabama-confederate-heroine-emma-sansom.77457/page-2#post-866048

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Thanks Donna! It IS ambitious. Not as hopeless as say, attempting to list everyone who had anything to do with Gettysburg ( which is still there- we could hack away at that forever ad ever, never get there, still fun! ), still worth a shot to get their stories a, TOLD and b. FOUND, once we've told them, you know?

Please anyone feel free to add- and if there's a thread already here- minimize, pull up CWT again, use the search option to look for one, and copy/paste- yes, time consuming but we only have to do it once, right?

 

[18thVirginia]

Elizabeth Van Lew was from a prominent Richmond family, ran her own spy network for the Union and provided supplies for those locked up in Confederate prisons in Richmond.

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/history-replays-today-elizabeth-van-lew.100548/
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/found-newspaper-articles-on-uncle.100343/#post-883212

 

[randy596]

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Lucy Holcombe Pickens's face appears on Confederate $100 bills
By selling the jewels that had been given her in Russia, Lucy helped outfit the Confederate Army unit that bore her name, the Lucy Holcombe Legion. Her portrait was also used on the one-dollar Confederate notes issued on June 2, 1862. She died in 1899.

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[18thVirginia]

Margaret Haughery came to Baltimore from Ireland as a child, was orphaned, eventually married, then moved to New Orleans where her young husband and infant died of yellow fever. Left alone again, she became a laundress, then started her own dairy and then a successful bakery. She spent her own earnings on the orphans of New Orleans and during the Civil War provided bread for the poor. She worked with Catholic nuns to open orphanages and upon her death, left her fortune to orphanages of all kinds of religions and ethnicities.

 

[donna]

I didn't know about Margaret Haughery. Thanks for post.

 

[Pat Young]

Marie Tepe, French immigrant who was one of only two women awarded the Kearny Cross. She served with the 114th Pennsylvania Collis's Zouaves. Read more about her here: http://www.longislandwins.com/colum...ch_woman_between_spotsylvania_and_cold_harbor

 

[John Winn]

Sidney Sophea Cather Gore, known as "the angel of mercy" because of all those she helped during and after the war (she cared for wounded from both sides in her house). Locally famous in Frederick Co., VA and around Winchester where she is buried. She was the model for the Mrs. Baywater character (an abolitionist) in her grand niece Willa Cather's novel Sopphira And The Slave Girl. Here is her Find A Grave link:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=342855&GRid=98932312&

p.s. - she also helped a number of young Baptist ministers, one of whom was my great grandfather (not John Winn; other side). They were life-long friends.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

CWT Links for Marie Tepe, our " French Mary ", thanks for remembering her here, Pat!

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/marie-brose-tepe.4114/
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/french-mary.76713/
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/col...rbor-an-irish-colonel-and-french-mary.102451/

 

[Pat Young]

Mary Sophia Hill was a Dubliner who immigrated to the U.S. During the war she served as a nurse to the Louisiana Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia. At one point she was arrested by the U.S. for espionage. Confederate Veteran referred to her as the "Florence Nightingale of the Army of Northern Virginia."

Here is a link to her diary:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~laudc/maryhilldiary.html

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Hetty Carr Cary Pegram Martin

Hetty Carr Cary (May 15, 1836 – September 27, 1892) was the wife of CSA General John Pegram and, later, of pioneer physiologist H. Newell Martin. She is best remembered for making the first three battle flags of the Confederacy (along with her sister and cousin). Hetty was related to two of Virginia's most influential families, the Jeffersons (through her mother's family) and the Randolphs (through her paternal grandmother, Virginia Randolph Cary). She was also a lineal descendant of Pocahontas.

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/hetty-carr-cary-was-the-wife-of-gen-john-pegram.102416/

 

[Karen Lips]

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Margaret Haughery came to Baltimore from Ireland as a child, was orphaned, eventually married, then moved to New Orleans where her young husband and infant died of yellow fever. Left alone again, she became a laundress, then started her own dairy and then a successful bakery. She spent her own earnings on the orphans of New Orleans and during the Civil War provided bread for the poor. She worked with Catholic nuns to open orphanages and upon her death, left her fortune to orphanages of all kinds of religions and ethnicities.

I wonder why this woman and here good deeds are not well known.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

I wonder why this woman and here good deeds are not well known.

Amazing, isn't it? One of the ambitions we have for Ladies Tea is to use whatever spotlight we can muster to unearth the stories of these amazing, amazing women and let them quite literally shine like the beacons of plain, old GOOD that they were- collectively a force in that era we feel made a vast difference.