Her War

Interpreting Women's Lives during the American Civil War

Civilian Civil War Bibliography

Adams, Lois Bryan. Letter from Washington, 1863-1865. 1999

Bremner, Robert Hamlett. The Public Good: Philanthropy and Welfare in the Civil War Era. 1980

Clinton, Catherine. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War. 1992

Cowie, Steven. When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home. 2022

Creighton, Margaret S. The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg’s Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War’s Defining Battle 2005

Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer. Trials and Triumphs: Women of the American Civil War. 1994

Davis, Rebecca Harding. Bits of Gossip. 2013

Edwards, Laura F. Scarlett Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. 2004

Elder Angela Esco. Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss. 2022

Ernst, Kathleen A. Too Afraid to Cry: Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign. 2007

Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. 2008

Giesberg, Judith. Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front. 2012

Gudmestad, Nancie W. The Shrivers’ Story: Eyewitnesses to the Battle of Gettysburg. 2008

Jones, Katharine M. Heroines of Dixie. 1995

___________When Sherman Came: Southern Women and the “Great March”. 1964

Kenzer, Robert C. Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South. 2004

Leisch, Juanita. Introduction to Civil War Civilians. 1994

Lockwood, John, Charles. The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union. 2012

Long, Alecia P. Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War. 2009

Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Women in the Civil War. 1994

Nelson, Scott and Carol Sheriff. A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2007

Ott, Victoria E.Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age During the Civil War. 2008

Rose, Anne C. Victorian America and the Civil War. 2008

Schantz, Mark S. Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America‘s Culture of Death. 2008

Shep, R.L. Civil War Era Etiquette: Martine’s Handbook and Vulgarisms in Conversation. 1988

Silber, Nina. Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. 2005

Silkenat, David. Driven From Home: North Carolina’s Civil War Refugee Crisis. 2018

Sommerville, Diane Miller. Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South. 2018

Sullivan, Patrick. No Matter What Befalls Me: Virginia Families at War and Peace.. 2015

Sutherland, Daniel E. Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front. 1999

Taylor, Amy Murrell. The Divided Family in Civil War America. 2005

Ural, Susannah. Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades. 2013

Volo, Dorothy Denneen. Daily Life in Civil War America (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series). 1998

Whites, Leeann. Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War. 2009.

Whyte, James, Divided Loyalties in Washington during the Civil War.” Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington D.C., 60/62, 1960, pp 103-122.

Wilkinson, Norman B. The Brandywine Home Front During the Civil War 1861-1865. 1966

Williams, David. A People’s History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom. 2005

Williams, Dr. Florence K. The Role of Chester County Women in the Great Central Fair Philadelphia 1864. 2007