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Westford Historical Society: Vermont Women and the Civil War

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September 17, 2022: 1:30 pm

“Vermont women enlisted for the duration.” So said a Vermont historian assessing the war years 1861-1865. Vermont’s remarkable Civil War battlefield record is well documented, but little is known of how Vermont women sustained the home front. Historian Howard Coffin explains, with nearly 35,000 of the state’s able-bodied men at war, how women took on farming, worked in factories, served as nurses in the state’s military hospitals, and more. And at least one Vermont woman appears to have secretly enlisted and fought in a Vermont regiment!

Drawing from letters and diaries, Coffin tells their story in their own words, describe life during the Civil War in the Green Mountain State.

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Date:
September 17, 2022
Time:
1:30 pm
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Organizer

Glen Rogers
Phone:
(802) 878-4524
Email:
glenn.rogers@uvm.edu

Venue

Westford Public Library
1717 Vermont Route 128
Westford, VT 05494 United States
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