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Civil War Women

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Bios and stories about women of the Civil War era, how they lived, what they did to survive

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  • Martha Helen Foster Caldwell

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 10:31 in wives of generals

    Wife of Union General John Curtis CaldwellMartha Helen Foster was born on August 12, 1838, the daughter of Jeremiah Foster of East Machias, Maine. John Curtis Caldwell was born in Lowell, Vermont, on April 17, 1833, the son of George M. and Elizabeth...

  • Blanche Butler Ames

    Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 10:08 in wives of generals

    Wife of Union General Adelbert AmesBlanche Butler was born on March 2, 1847, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Her mother, Sarah Hildreth Butler, had been a Shakespearean actress before marrying Blanche's father, Union General Benjamin Franklin Butler, a Mas...

  • George Ann Patterson Porter

    Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 15:53 in wives of generals

    Wife of Union Admiral David Dixon PorterGeorge Ann 'Georgy' Patterson was born in 1819 in New Orleans, Louisiana, daughter of Commodore Daniel Todd George Ann Pollock Patterson. David Dixon Porter was born at Chester, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1813, the ...

  • Mary Mason Jones de Trobriand

    Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 13:36 in wives of generals

    Wife of Union General Philippe Regis de Trobriand Mary Mason Jones was born in 1819, the daughter of Isaac and Mary Mason Jones. Her father was the president of the Chemical Bank, and her mother was American novelist Edith Wharton's great-aunt, and t...

  • Ruth Anne Brown Dodge

    Posted on Saturday October 24th, 2009 at 18:13 in wives of generals

    Wife of Union General Grenville Mullen DodgeRuth Anne Brown was born on May 23, 1833, in Peru, Illinois. Grenville Mullen Dodge was born in Putnamville, near Danvers, Massachusetts, on April 12, 1831, to Sylvanus and Julia Theresa Phillips Dodge. Fro...

  • Mary Craig Wharton Wadsworth

    Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 11:44 in wives of generals

    Wife of Union General James Samuel WadsworthMary Craig Wharton was born on August 24, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. James Samuel Wadsworth was born on October 30, 1807, to wealthy parents, James and Naomi Wolcott Wadsworth, at Geneseo, the sea...

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