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Increasing awareness and understanding of women's experiences during the American Civil War 1861-1865

The Society for Women and the Civil War is dedicated to recognizing the efforts of women who lived through or participated in the American Civil War and those who research, reenact or otherwise honor these women of the past. The society sponsors an annual conference and a quarterly e-journal.

10/26/2026

This is the LAST WEEK to submit Presentation Proposals for the annual Society for Women and the Civil War Conference, 2027! SWCW’s 26th annual conference will be held Renfrew Museum and Park, Waynesboro, PA, from July 23-25, 2027.

Read about the Speaker Compensation Package, format requirements, evaluation criteria, and more, at https://swcw.org/conference-announcement/callforpresentations/.

10/15/2026

From the Archives: Halloween and Its Evolution Through the Centuries

You can find great articles just like this in the SWCW Membership Portal after joining as an annual supporter!

Full article found: Mescher, Virginia. “Halloween and Its Evolution Through the Centuries.” At Home and in the Field 2, no. 4 (Autumn, 2003).

09/13/2026

From the Archives: A little Civil War (non) scandal!

You can find great articles just like this in the SWCW Membership Portal after joining as an annual supporter!

Full article found: Dennis, Susan. “The Scandal that Never Was.” At Home and in the Field 2, no. 3 (Summer 2003).

07/20/2026

Thank you, American Battlefield Trust, for sharing these stories!

Learn about the roles of female nurses on and off of a Civil War battlefield.

06/08/2026

From the Archives: You can find great articles just like this in the SWCW Membership Portal after joining as an annual supporter!

Full article found: Mescher, Virginia. “Comforts from Home.” At Home and in the Field 2, no. 2 (Spring 2003).

05/03/2026

From the Archives: You can find great articles just like this in the SWCW Membership Portal after joining as an annual supporter!

Full article found: Susan Youhn, "Civil War Women's Memorial
Dedicated in Gettysburg," At Home and in The Field, Winter, 2003, vol. 2 no. 1, pp. 7-8.

04/10/2026

From the Archives: You can find great articles just like this in the SWCW Membership Portal after joining as an annual supporter!

Full article found: Virginia Mescher, "In the Company of Noble Women: Sarah Josepha Hale: The Mother of the National Celebrate of Thanksgiving," At Home and in The Field, Autumn, 2002, vol. 1 no. 2, pp. 10-11

03/31/2026

On this day in 1863, Confederate nurse Kate Cu***ng wrote to her family about the death of one of her patients, revealing the bonds nurses formed with soldiers in the hospitals: "James Scott, the young man of whom I spoke some time ago, has just breathed his last. After lying on his back four months, he was able to walk about; he was then taken with pneumonia; recovered from that; was taken with diphtheria; from that he also recovered; and died from the effects of erysipelas. Poor child! what a happy release from woe and suffering! His young life had been one of sorrow, but he trusted in Him who trod this vale of tears before him...."

For more, see Comming's memoir: Cu***ng, Kate. Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse. Edited by Richard Barksdale Harwell, Louisiana State University Press, 1998, p. 180.

(Photo: Courtesy of National Library of Medicine)

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PO Box 3117
Gettysburg, PA
17325

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https://www.swcw.org/

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