March is Women's History Month, and the Tennessee State Library and Archives will highlight stories of women from our new digital collection, "Women in the Civil War," on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/TNStateLibraryArchives.
Historians have argued that women's experiences in the Civil War were even more varied than those of men on the front lines. Women of all social classes experienced the war in some way, through deprivation, loss of loved ones, disintegration of social norms and even battlefield experience. This event showcases female participation in the war and includes excerpts from the diaries of Nannie Haskins, Rachel Carter Craighead and Lucy Virginia Smith French.
