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40. “Declaration of Sentiments” and “Second Worcester Convention, 1851—Resolutions,” in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, History of Woman Suffrage (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881), 1:70, 826; Clinton, The Other Civil War, 76.

41. George Fitzhugh, “Women of the South,” DeBow’s Review 31 (August 1861): 147, 150; Sarah Morgan, The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan, ed. Charles East (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991), 74.

42. Louisa May Alcott, The Journals of Louisa May Alcott, ed. Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989), 105; Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan, 77, 85; Marilyn Mayer Culpepper, Trials and Triumphs: Women of the American Civil War (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1991), 39.

43. John Anderson Richardson, Richardson’s Defense of the South (Atlanta: A. B. Caldwell, 1914), 604; Sara Edmonds, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-fields (Philadelphia: W. S. Williams, 1865), 101.

44. Furgurson, Chancellorsville 1863, 32.

45. DeAnn Blanton and Lauren Cook, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002), 7; Richard Hall, Patriots in Disguise: Women Warriors of the Civil War (New York: Paragon House, 1993), 20–26, 100–101, 158, 161.

46. Edward J. Hagerty, Collis’ Zouaves: The 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997), 94; Edward G. Longacre, Custer and His Wolverines: The Michigan Cavalry Brigade, 1861–1865 (Conshohocken, PA: Combined Publishing, 1997), 23–24; L. C. Sizer, “Acting Her Part: Narratives of Union Women Spies,” in Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War, ed. Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 127–30.

47. “Education of Southern Women,” DeBow’s Review 31 (October/November 1861): 390; Alcott, Journals, 105; Kate Cumming, Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse, ed. R. B. Harwell (Baton Rouge: Louisianan State University Press, 1959), 191–92; Edmonds, Nurse and Spy, 332; Leonidas Torrence to Sarah Ann Torrence, August 2, 1861, in “The Road to Gettysburg: The Diary and Letters of Leonidas Torrence of the Gaston Guards,” ed. Haskell Monroe, North Carolina Historical Review 36 (October 1959): 481; Drew G. Faust, “Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War,” in Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War, ed. Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 175–79.

48. “Christening the Palmetto State” (October 17, 1862), in The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, ed. Frank Moore (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1862), 6:15; Julieanna Williams, “For Our Boys—The Ladies’ Aid Societies,” in Valor and Lace: The Roles of Confederate Women, ed. Mauriel P. Joslyn (Gretna, LA: Pelican, 2004), 25–30; Mary Elizabeth Massey, Bonnet Brigades: American Women and the Civil War (New York: Knopf, 1966), 34–35; Culpepper, Trials and Triumphs, 256, 258, 261; George Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 139; Katharine Prescott Wormeley, The Other Side of War: With the Army of the Potomac—Letters from the Headquarters of the United States Sanitary Commission During the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia in 1862 (Boston: Ticknor, 1889), 6.

49. E. Susan Barber, “Depraved and Abandoned Women: Prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, Across the Civil War,” in Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, ed. Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 163–65; Thomas P. Lowry, The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 1994), 68.

50. Culpepper, Trials and Triumphs, 266.

51. Ibid., 126, 264; diary entries for June 9, 1862 and September 23, 1863, in Mary Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, ed. C. Vann Woodward (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981), 371, 426.

52. Diary entry for June 29, 1861, in Kate Stone, Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861–1868, ed. John Q. Anderson (1955; Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995), 33; Drew G. Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 62; Martha Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), 126–27, 146.

53. The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan, 67; The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger, 142; Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism, 74, 80, 84, 101, 140, 171; Larry B. Maier, Gateway to Gettysburg: The Second Battle of Winchester (Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press), 71.

54. E. R. McKinley, diary entry for September 9, 1863, in From the Pen of a She-Rebel: The Civil War Diary of Emilie Riley McKinley, ed. Gordon Cotton (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001), 48; “General Orders No. 28,” May 13, 1862, in War of the Rebellion, Series One, 25:426; Dick Nolan, Benjamin Franklin Butler: The Damnedest Yankee (Novato, CA: Presidio, 1991), 177.

55. Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 459; Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman, 73.

56. Escott, After Secession, 120–21; 150, 151; Elizabeth Neblett, diary-letter for August 28, 1863, in A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852–1864, ed. Erika L. Muir (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001), 150, 151.

57. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism, 183; Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861–1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 247.

58. Clarence Mohr, On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985), 113, 118, 153–57; Mary Elizabeth Massey, Refugee Life in the Confederacy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001 [1964]), 29, 37, 249; Rubin, A Shattered Nation, 64–68; Nelson and Sheriff, A People at War, 264–67; Drew G. Faust, “Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War,” Journal of American History 76 (March 1990): 1213–14.

59. Diary entry for March 10, 1863, The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan, 435.

60. Nelson and Sheriff, A People at War, 116–19.

61. Cumming, Kate: The Journal of a Confederate