10/14/2025
Our neighbors at the Moretown Historical Society are hosting a great event on October 18th. See details below:
Historian Howard Coffin: Vermont Women & the Civil War
Oct 18, 2025, 2 to 3 PM
Where: Moretown United Methodist Church, Vermont 100B, Moretown, VT
"VT women enlisted for the duration." So said a Vermont historian assessing the war years. VT's remarkable Civil War battlefield record is well documented, but little is known of how Vermont women sustained the home front. With nearly 35,000 of the state's able-bodied men at war, the monumental tasks of keeping more than 30,000 farms in operation became very much a female enterprise.
And women took the place of men in factories and worked after hours making items needed by the soldiers.
Vermont women served as nurses in the state's military hospitals and in the war zone and taught newly freed slaves in the South. This story is told in their words, from letters and diaries that describe life during the Civil War in the Green Mountain State.
