How did Civil War women deal with the loss of their husbands?

Posted 10/2/2015 By Katie Brackett Fialka

Angela Elder discusses how widows dealt with the loss of their husbands during and after the Civil War.

Song of the Southern Women

O ABRAHAM LINCOLN! We call thee to hark To the song we are singing, we Joans of Arc; While our brothers are bleeding we fear not to bleed, We?ll face the Red Horror should there be need

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