Selected Bibliography for Women and Civilian Topics
Journals, Bibliographies, and Articles
- Andrews, Eliza Frances. The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl.
Atlanta, Georgia; Cherokee Publishing Company, 1976, (c. 1960).
- Avary, Myrta Lockett. A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Baird, Nancy Chappalear, Journals of Amanda Virginia Edmunds: Less of
the Mosby Confederacy, 1859-1867. Virginiaa: published by author, 1984.
- Baker, Nina Brown Cyclone in Calico: The Story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke.
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1952.
- Baxandall, Rosalyn, America's Working Women and a Documentary History,
1600 to Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1976.
- Buck, Dr. William P., ed. Sad Earth, Sweet Heaven: The Diary of Lucy
Rebecca Buck during the War Between the States. Birmingham, Alabama: Dr.
Buck, 1973.
- Chestnut, Mary Boykin. A Diary from Dixie. Cambridge, Mass: The
Riverdale Press, 1961.
- Clinton, Catherine Plantation Mistress: A Woman's World in the Old
South.
- Cogan, Frances All-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womanhood in
Mid-19th Century America. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press,
1989.
- Coulling, Mary P. The Lee Girls. Winston-Salem, North Carolina:
John F. Blair, Publisher, 1987.
- Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer. Trials and Triumphs: The Women of the Civil
War.
- Fox-Benonesc, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and
White Women of the Old South.
- Gay, Mary Ann Harris. Life in Dixie During the War. Decatur,
Georgia: DeKalb Historical Society, 1979 (originally published 1897).
- Grover, Katheryn. Dining in America, 1850-1900. Amhurst, Mass.:
University of Massachusetts, 1987.
- Harwell, Richard Bark Journal of Kate Cumming, Confederate Nurse
(1835-1909).
- Hay, Elzie. "Dress Under Difficulties, or, Passages from the Blockade
Experience of Rebel Women," Godey's Lady's Book, July, 1866. (Elxie
Hay was the 'nom de plume' of Eliza Frances Andrews.)
- Hill, Ralph Nading. "Mr. Godey's Lady," American Heritage,
Vol. IX, Number 6. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, October
1958. (This is an article about Sarah Josepha Hale, editress of Godey's
Lady's Book.)
- Hurmance, Belinda, ed. Before Freedom: When I Just Can Remember.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina: John P. Blair, Pub., 1989.
- Jones, Katharine M. Ladies of Richmond. New York: Bobs-Merrill
Company, Inc., 1962.
- Jones, Katharine M. Heroines of Dixie: Winter of Desperation. New
York: Bobs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1955.
- Jones, Katharine M. Heroines of Dixie: Spring of High Hope. New
York: Bobs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1955.
- King, Spencer Bidwell, Jr. Ebb Tide, As Seen Through the Diary of
Josephine Clay Habersham, 1863. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia
Press, 1958.
- MacDonald, Anne L. No Idle Hands: The Social History of Knitting.
New York: Ballentine Books, 1988.
- McWhiney, Grady. Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South.
- Massey, Mary Elizabeth. The Bonnet Brigade.
- Massey, Mary Elizabeth Ersatz in the Confederacy. Columbia, South
Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1952.
- Putnam, Sallie B. Richmond during the War: Four Years of Observation by
a Richmond Lady. New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., Publishers, 1876.
(Reprinted by Time-Life Books, 1983.)
- Roberson, Elizabeth Weep Not For Me, Dear Mother.
- Ross, Ishmel. Rebel Rose: The Life of Rose O'Neil Greenhow, Confederate
Spy. Mockingbird Books, 1954.
- Rozier, John, ed. Granite Farm Letters: The Civil War Correspondence of
Edgeworth and Sallie Bird. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press,
1988.
- Scott, Ann Firor. The Southern Lady: From Pedestel to Politics.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970.
- Smedes, Susan Dabney. Memorials of a Southern Planter. New York:
Alfred A. Knoph, 1965.
- Spencer, Col. Thomas, ed. "Diary of Miss Sue Richardson at 'Rose
Hill' of Front Royal, Virginia, October 1, 1863-May 23, 1865."
unpublished.
- Sterkx, H. E. Partners in Rebellion: Alabama Women in the Civil War.
Cranberry, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1970.
- Taylor, Susan King. A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs. Markus
Wiener Publishers.
- Thomas, Gertrude. The Secret Eye: The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton
Thomas, 1848-1889.
- Wiley, Belle I. Confederate Women. Westport, Connecticutt:
Greenwood Press, 1975.
- Wiley, Belle I. A Confederate Woman's Story: Life in Confederate
Richmond, Phoebe Yates Pember. New York: Ballentine Books, 1959.
- Wiley, Belle I. The Plain People of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1944.
- Wiley, Belle I. The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the
Confederacy. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1971.