Part I: Bobst Orientation
Part II: Published Material
Part III: Archival Research
Archives Overview
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Part III: Archival Research
Sample Topic: Southern Women in the Civil War Era
1. Consult an archival directory:
From: Andrea Hinding, Women's History Sources.
The subject index in the second volume provides numerous entries under "Civil
War." Two entries are as follows:
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3,242. Prescott, Emma J. SladePapers. 1882. 1 item. Open. Published guide. Atlanta
Historical Society.[Mrs. Alfred] Prescott's reminiscences of the Civil
War, during which she spent two years in Decatur, GA, and then evacuated
to Columbus, GA, with her four children. Taken from D. Louise Cook, comp.
Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Atlanta Historical Society
(Atlanta: Atlanta Historical Society, Inc., 1976).
9,584. Anonymous Diary.Papers. 1863-72. 1 vol. Open. Description. Mississippi
Department of Archives and History.Copy of a diary written by a Natchez,
MS, woman during the Civil War, with the bulk of the entries dated 1863.
The writer comments on life in occupied Natchez, reports on battles, and
describes the manners and appearance of Yankee soldiers. The writer resumes
her narrrative in 1865 and comments briefly about the feelings of southerners
toward their "oppressors." Contains one entry each from 1870,
1871, and 1872.
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2. Search Archives USA
A search for "civil war and women and south" in both the repository and collection modules.
One sample entry is reproduced below:
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Collection Name: Maryland women's papers (1822-1964)
Repository Name: Maryland Historical Society, Manuscripts Division, Baltimore Maryland
NUCMC Number: MS 78-820
Type: (MS 76-1130). Addition
Collection Dates: 1772-1955
Extent: 141 items and 12 v.
Description: In part, photocopy and transcripts. Personal and family correspondence of Eleanor Murdock Johnson, Rachel Ridgeway Starr Trimble (1841-1930), Emmeline Rodgers and Susan (Rodgers) Malter, both of Harford County, Md., and Johanna and Elizabeth C. Clemm, of Baltimore, Md.; 10 letters (1864-79) to Rosa Mills, boardinghouse proprietor, of Baltimore, from Mathew Calbraith Butler, U.S. Senator from South Carolina, and other papers of Mills; letters (1891-1955) of or about Baltimore poet and author Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935), including 5 to poets Grace Hill Turnbull (b. 1881?) and Francese Hubbard (Litchfield) Turnbull (d. 1927); letters and diaries (1890s-1934) of Mina Blind Reid (d. 1937), of Baltimore, on a trip to Italy and visit to her son's grave in France as a Gold Star Mother; diaries and memoranda book of Mary Lewis (b. 1842), wife of sea captain Ray T. Lewis (b. 1838), Rebecca Dorsey Davis (1843-1921), of Montgomery County, Md., and Claudia Old McKittrick (d. 1943).
Index Terms: NUCMC
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3. Search OCLC WorldCat (or RLIN AMC, or both)
With the terms: "women civil war personal narratives" One sample entry is reproduced below:
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Title: Green family Civil War papers, 1861-1863.
Author(s): Green family. ; Green, Fannie. ; Green, William C.,; b. 1840.
Year: 1861 1863
Description: .25 linear ft. (in 1 box)
Language: English
Abstract: The Green family Civil War papers consist mainly of family correspondence. The main correspondent in this collection is Fannie Green. She wrote to her mother, father, and to her brother, William C. Green. She also kept a journal (March 1862 - May 1863). These letters and journal were written while on a visit to Washington D.C., during her time at Newport News where she nursed her brother who was injured at the Battle of Fair Oaks and Seven Pines, and upon their subsequent return to Michigan. Included in her journal is an entry of a letter received from her brother dated May 9, 1862 written from a camp near Williamsburg in which he describes in great detail the Battle of Williamsburg. Other correspondence includes letters written to Fannie by William C. Green, William to his mother and father, and miscellaneous other correspondents.
Library: Emory University
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4. Locate archives
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