Civil War Women

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    • Clara Barton and the Civil War
    • By: Stephen B. Oates
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a 39-year-old woman who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency....

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    • Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
    • By: Karen Abbott
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 727 ratings
    • The stories of four courageous women - a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow - who were spies....

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    • Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
    • By: Stephanie McCurry
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • When the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confederate women would be innocent noncombatants. Experience soon challenged this simplistic belief. Stephanie McCurry reveals the vital and sometimes confounding roles women played on and off the battlefield....

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    • Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
    • By: David Williams, Howard Zinn - editor
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people - foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others....

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    • The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant
    • By: Carol Berkin
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In these moving stories of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity....

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    • True Civil War Stories from the Men and Women of the Old South
    • By: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
    • Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that's largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the Confederacy....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Elaine Showalter
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Julia Ward (1819-1910) was an heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind....

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    • By: Meredith I. Anderson
    • Narrated by: John McBride
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A collection of exciting stories about 13 young women, 11 to 24 years of age, based on actual events reported in letters and newspapers during our nation's greatest conflict....

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    • How Women of the South Survived the Civil War: In Their Own Words
    • By: Pippa Pralen
    • Narrated by: Virginia Ferguson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Eyewitness accounts from over 50 diaries of southern women facing the hardships of the Civil War. Includes voices of slave women. As Yankee soldiers plundered, and starvation stalked the land, they hid food and heirlooms in wells and swamps....

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    • By: Mary Chesnut, C. Vann Woodward
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 42 hrs
    • Release date: 03-04-25
    • Language: English
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    • The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck “always to stumble in on the real show.” Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South’s headlong plunge to ruin....

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    • The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
    • By: Cokie Roberts
    • Narrated by: Cokie Roberts
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • With the outbreak of the Civil War, Washington, DC, found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States....

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    • America’s First Women Soldiers
    • By: Elizabeth Cobbs
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the US Army....

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    • By: Angela Hunt
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • THE HEIRS OF CAHIRA O’CONNOR SERIES - BOOK THREE It is said that as Cahira, daughter of the great Irish king Rory O’Connor, lay dying of a ...

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    • The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
    • By: Karen L. Cox
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Karen L. Cox's history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause, shows why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure....

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    • A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
    • By: W. Caleb McDaniel
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage....

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    • By: Septima M. Collis
    • Narrated by: Julie Ann Marra
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-24
    • Language: English
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    • A Woman's War Record by Septima M. Collis, narrated by Julie Ann Mara, offers a rare and compelling first-person account of life during the American Civil War from a woman’s perspective.

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    • Winners, Losers, Strong Women, and Eccentric Men of the Civil War Era
    • By: John C. Waugh
    • Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Personalities. Characters. History. John C. Waugh, the author of the popular and award-winning The Class of 1846, presents forty of the most memorable and impactful individuals he has come across during his three decades of researching and writing about the American Civil War....

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    • By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 472 ratings
    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

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    • From Harmony to Hostility
    • By: Cindy Roe Littlejohn
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In an unexpected pairing, illiterate Mary, a cattleman’s daughter from South Carolina, marries William, a man from Washington, DC. Their life in ...

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    • Women of the North and South Who Influenced the Outcome of the War
    • By: Arianne Cousteau
    • Narrated by: Amy Gorelow
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Spies played significant roles on both sides of the American Civil War, and many were women. These fascinating women contributed to the war effort when women could not vote or own property. Yet, Union or Confederate, all of these women had conviction....

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