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CIV099  A Vast Army of Women. Maine's Uncounted Forces in the American Civil War
Lynda L. Sudlow
Hardcover. 263 pp.  two left
 Bookguy price $24.95

CIV097  Diary of A Union Lady 1861 - 1865  
Maria Lydig Daly.
Mrs. Daly's richly detailed comments on everything from inept Union generals to Dorothea Dix's appearance provide the liveliest memoir to emerge from an Northern noncombatant. Paper  396pp
Bookguy price $19.95

BLK053 Beloved Sisters And Loving Friends.  Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oaks, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868
edited by F.J. Griffin
Rebecca Primus was the daughter of a prominent black Connecticut family and  was sent to the South during Reconstruction by the Harford Freedmen's Aid Society to teach newly freed slaves.  Addie Brown was a domestic servant in Connecticut and New York City as well as Rebecca's best friend.  These two spirited women wrote letters that are here gathered in an astonishing, historically valuable volume.  Shared passion, ambitions, frustrations, politics, gossip, all the fascinating minutiae of daily life, give these unique letters extraordinary flavor and richness.  Paper.  301 pp.. out of print.  one copy left.
Bookguy price  $14

CIV053 Liberty, Virtue, and Progress.  Northerners and Their War for the Union. 
Earl J. Hess
 Explores the motivations that caused Northerners to fight.
Bookguy price  $29.95

CIV094  Love and Valor.  Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner
ed C. F. Larimer
Throughout the war Jacob and Emiline exchanged an extraordinary series of letters vividly depicting both life on the battlefield and at the home front.    Paper. 453 pp.    
Bookguy price $19.95

CIV012 The Ties of the Past
S. Rogers
 Sallie Myers diary, a school teacher when the Gettysburg battle began, shows her life was changed forever.
Bookguy price  $14.95

CIV003 Gettysburg Civilians. Days of Darkness
W. G. Williams
 The work of women and children caring for the wounded.
Bookguy price  $17.46

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FEM012 Women at Gettysburg
E. F. Conklin
 Forty biographies of women who aided soldiers at Gettysburg. Available in Hardcover and softcover.
Bookguy price  $22.95

CIV084   Emma Speaks Out. Life and Writings of Emma Molloy ( 1839 - 1907)   
M. M. Pickrell
Emma Molloy was the first woman newspaper editor in northern Indiana. After her first marriage to an alcoholic failed in divorce, she married again and, with her husband, operated several newspapers.  As a result of her previous experience with her first husband, she took up the cause of intemperance and lectured on behalf of the cause.  Throughout her life she was at the forefront of the women's movement to get the vote and to use it.  Hardcover 162 pp.  
Bookguy price  $24.95