My Book is Now Available for Pre-Order!

You can now purchase my book through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  It will ship March 15th.  Right now, the only option is hardcover, but it will be available as an ebook at some point. 

Even though the focus is women soldiers from Mississippi or those from elsewhere who fought in Mississippi battles, I branch out and share new exciting research about such topics as Gettysburg, Shiloh, Allatoona, Peach Tree Creek, Andersonville, 2nd Fort Donelson, Cloyd's Mountain/New River Bridge, Andersonville, Alton, etc.

Click [HERE] to purchase a copy from Amazon.

Click [HERE] to purchase a copy from Barnes & Noble.

Meet Miss Jenna Who Found Inspiration from a Woman Soldier of the Civil War

I recently had the pleasure of receiving an email from a nice gentleman named Mr. David who shared with me that his lovely and talented daughter, Miss Jenna, will be studying library science after she graduates from high school.  Her inspiration for her career choice?  She read the letters of a woman soldier named Mary Ann Clark and her mother, Elizabeth Burbage. And now she wants to use what she has learned to form a platform from which she can share her knowledge with others throughout her future career.  This is what Jenna had to say:

They Didn't Just Enlist in Wartime, Part 2

In my last blog post, I shared an article about a New York woman who enlisted in 1855, before the war.  Click [HERE] for it.  The following appeared in the Davenport Daily Gazette in October 1865, relating a brief story about an Iowa woman who had been serving at Camp McClellan six months after Lee surrendered.