i need info on the civil war era.?

Question

I know A LOT of stuff about the civil war but i was wondering anyone had iformation on the way women lived? and children. i do reanactments but i am always looking for more infromation.

Answer 1

I like what this lady said:

"Well, I was born 87 years ago, June 22, 1852. My father was shot in the arm while in action during the first year of the Confederate War. He was sent home later because of illness and finally died with typhoid fever. He left ma with six chilluns, three boys and three girls. I was the oldest and I had to help ma raise the chilluns, but we worked hard, everybody had to work hard then." Mrs. W.W. Mize, 198 Elbert Street, Athens, Georgia, on October 3, 1939

North Carolinians epitomized what southern women and children experienced:

In 1861, 71% of North Carolina's slave population resided in the Coastal Plain Region, with the Southern Appalachian Mountains considered the poorest region of North Carolina. Consequently, the Reconstruction witnessed many bankrupted industries in North Carolina, including agriculture. During the American Civil War, houses were stripped of draperies and carpets to provide clothing and shelter for North Carolina's troops. Even donated church bells were melted down and recast as cannon. Parched corn was substituted for coffee, and spinning wheels once more competed with power looms. Yet opportunistic merchants and unscrupulous blockade runners continued to sell their goods at the highest prices the market would bear. Bacon soared from $.33 to $7.50 per pound, wheat went from $3 to $50 a bushel, and coffee was selling at $100 per pound. While at least 125,000 Tar Heels served in service of the Confederate States of America, almost eight times that number remained at home. Confronted with scarcities, exorbitant prices, and depreciating currency, farm wives and plantation mistresses, old men and small children, free blacks and domestic servants strove to make ends meet.

Female Soldiers
Madame Collier was a federal soldier from East Tennessee who enjoyed army life until her capture and subsequent imprisonment at Belle Isle, Virginia. She decided to make the most of the difficult situation and continued concealing her gender, hoping for exchange. Another prisoner learned her secret and reported it to Confederate authorities, who sent her North under a flag of truce. John L. Ransom, Andersonville Diary (1881), pp. 20-21

SOURCES AND ADDITIONAL READING
http://thomaslegion.net/confederate.html
WOMEN AND CHILDREN DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2719
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/civilwar/women.html

Answer 2

i'm a close by of Kentuck and had ancestors who fought interior the Civil conflict besides. i won't be able to quote you good figures or supply you blow-by utilizing-blow information yet it is the way it became in Kentucky in the time of the Civil conflict: ninety,000 men fought for the Union 40,000 men fought for the Confederacy there is not something written in stone approximately this actuality, yet specially, western Kentucky became extra professional-Confederacy than something of the state (Ballard County sits in far-western Kentucky. lots of south-necessary Kentucky and a few aspects of southeastern Kentucky have been crammed with Union sympathizers. Abraham Lincoln became a Republican president. those counties have been continuously Republican because of the fact the Civil conflict. Jackson County, placed in southeastern Kentucky, despatched all of its men who volunteered to combat into the ranks of the Union military--shop for one guy. Lewis County, Kentucky, this is placed interior the northeastern part of the state, has the only prevalent monument south of the Mason-Dixon line honoring Union squaddies. 2 fabulous accomplice generals (and graduates of West element) have been born in Kentucky--Alberst Sidney Johnston, who became born perhaps 40 5 miles from the place grant became born (on the different element of the Ohio River) and John B. Hood, who became born someplace around Mount Sterling or Owingsville. He could have had accomplice sympathies yet moved to Arkansas for various motives.

Answer 3

you have lot of DVDs with that subject...
Western movies

Answer 4

See if your library has any of these: