http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;expand%3Dsubject;f1-subject%3DUnited%20States%20--%20History%20--%20Civil%20War,%201861-1865%20--%20Women.;keyword%3Dcivil%20war;smode%3Dadvanced Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;expand=subject;f1-subject=United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.;keyword=civil war;smode=advanced Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3424.xml Margret S. Ferguson was a resident of Ways Station, Bryan County, Georgia. Her son, C.W. Ferguson, served in the 8th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, during the American Civil War, and was stationed at Manassas Junction, Virginia, in 1861. The collection consists of letters received by Mrs. Ferguson, including some from her son, C.W. Ferguson. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3424.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1012.xml The United States Sanitary Commission (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio) was established in 1861 in Cleveland, Ohio, to provide for the physical needs of soldiers by improving camp hygiene and diets, collecting and disbursing hospital stores, inspecting hospitals and other medical facilities, caring for sick and wounded soldiers, registering and burying the dead, building and supporting a soldiers home, and conducting a special relief system and employment service. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, memoranda, receipt, cash, and memoranda books, acknowledgements of equipment received, bank drafts, insurance policies, newspaper clippings, and other papers. Includes invoices and other papers concerning the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair, 1864, and a memoir of Caroline Younglove Abbott concerning the work of the organization. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1012.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4576.xml Nancie Swan Foskett(1838-?) of Medina County, Ohio, was a schoolteacher (1861-1865) in various schools in Medina County. During 1861-1862, she and her father lived in LeSeuer, Minnesota with her brothers and their families, returning to Medina County in the spring of 1862. In 1865, Nancie Swan married Captain Porter Foskett of Brunswick, Ohio. They made their home in the city of Medina, where Porter Foskett became a successful businessman. The collection consists of eleven diaries of Nancie Swan Foskett, 1855-1869, and one account book of N.A. Goodwin, 1818-1834. The diaries detail her life as a teacher in various schools in Medina County, Ohio, her trip to Minnesota, civilian life during the American Civil War, and family events during the period. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4576.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT