Ellen Lewis, employee of the University of Central Arkansas and a living history practitioner, collected the material in the Women in the Civil War collection. This material lists women from across the country who played a prominent role in the Civil War as spies, soldiers, and nurses. Several of Ellen Lewis’s presentations are included, along with displays she used in conjunction with the presentations.
Box 1
File 1 – List of Women Included in the Project
File 2 – Brave Heroines
File 3 – Diaries
File 4 – Nurses
File 5 – Soldiers
File 6 – Spies
File 7 – Vivandiers – Daughters of the Regiment
File 8 – List of Ladies Garments Worn in the 19th Century
File 9 – Educate Your Daughters! From Corsets to Congress; Women’s Reform in America
File 10 – Women’s Roles in the Civil War
File 11 – Victorian Trade Cards: Marketing in the 19th Century
File 12 – Women Soldiers of the Civil War
1 USB Drive
End of Box 1
Box 2 (Oversized Files)
Framed Display – Soldiers
Framed Display – Important Women of the 19th Century
Poster – The Unsexing of Emma Edmonds
Framed Display – Reformers
Framed Poster – Victoria Woodhull for President
Framed Display – Nurses
End of Box 2
Box 3 (Oversized Files)
Framed Display – Vivandiers
Framed Display – Belle Boyd
Framed Display – Espionage
Framed Display – Woman Soldier in 95th Ill. Albert D. J. Cashier
Framed Display – Pauline Cushman
Framed Newspaper – Northern Virginia Daily, Wednesday, November 27, 1940
End of Box 3
End of Collection