Who was Nancy Emerson and why is she so important in civil war?

Answer 1

It is not the fact that Nancy Emerson was important to the war, it is the fact that she kept and excellent diary that somehow had transpired through time. Her diary along with a diary from Joseph Wadell are kept in the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia.

Both were great documenters of their time during the Civil War, but since you questioned Ms. Emerson, I will keep to writings. Ms. Emerson was one of the first lesbians to come forth, out of the closet you might say. She was noted for her sexual antics with nurses through out the southern states, and she documented much of them.

One such occasion would have been right after the funeral of George Baylor who was killed at the battle of Cedar Run and was only 20 years old. He was from Richmond, Va just as Ms. Emerson was. However, the funeral was being held in just outside of Atlanta in the small town of Jonesboro, and it was at this time that Ms. Emerson encountered one of the most memorable persons she would ever come to know.

After entering the funereal home, Ms. Emerson noticed a fairly petite woman of about twenty five, she was wearing what appeared to be a most expensive gown, and stood out amongst her peers. As Ms. Emerson was introduced through out the room, she couldn't help but notice that her glances were being returned by the lovely woman. She was to be introduced as Scarlett O'Hara. Scarlett noted how they were the same age, and later on in the evening she invited Nancy out to Tara for a evening of girl "Talk". Eventually, Nancy moved into Tara, living there for better part of 2 years until Rhett Butler's return home.
A little known fact is that after the war, and when the southern states raised taxes, it was Nancy Emerson who helped raise the $300 to pay the taxes on Tara.

After her years at Tara, Nancy Emerson lived just down the road in a little town called Riverdale, at the Slattery mansion, living out her years with her life partner Emmy Slattery.

Answer 2

Nancy Emerson was important during the Civil War because she gave feminists 150 years later a female name [who wasn't a nurse] to wave around as important during the Civil War.

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Edited in: Asker. Give five stars to Mark, below.

Mark, maybe the best answer I've ever seen on YahooQA

Answer 3

Mark, that was cute, real cute.
However, you did get me to research her myself and read the diary on the site you mentioned. So I did learn something in the midst of your fantasy!
There are no books on Amazon about her, by the way, and the only lesbian site I found with her name on google had no valid links that I could read. There's no mention of her interest in lesbian sex on the library site.
It's always nice to think that at least Scarlett O'Hara was real, though, seems like the sort of thing she would have thought herself.