Women's History ALIVE! Presents

the one woman touring play

"Civil War Women"
"Civil War Women" provides a unique view of one of the most explosive events in American history. From 1856 to the end of the war in 1865, five remarkable women tell of their role in the war and how it affected them. The five women are:
Sandra Hansen portraying Sarah Morgan in Civil War Women

Linda Brent - (pen name for Harriet Jacobs) an escaped slave who hid in a crawl space in her grandmother's attic for seven years before escaping to the north

Harriet Tubman - the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad

Emma Edmonds - disguised as a man, she fought in the Second Michigan Infantry

Dr. Esther Hill Hawks - unable to become a Union army doctor, she taught emancipated slaves to read and write in the South

Sarah Morgan Dawson - a young Southern belle who lost everything in the war, including two brothers who died the same week.

     

    Excerpts are taken from these women's diaries and woventogether in chronological order to show a view of the Civil War never seen before. "Civil War Women" lasts 55 minutes and is appropriate for audiencesfrom fifth grade to senior citizens.

    Workshops:  After viewing the play as an assemblyupper elementary through high school students can participate in workshops where the students get to write their own skit, put on costumes, and performfor each other.

    Scripts: The "Civil War Women" Script is available for students or adults to perform for a small fee. To request a script, click here: Script

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    Beard, Mary ed. America Through Women's Eyes. New York: Greenwood Press. 1976.

    Brent, Linda. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: An Authentic Historical Narrative Describing the Horrors of Slavery as Experienced. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. San Diego. 1973. The story of a woman who escapes slavery and sexual harrassment to form her own personal prison in a crawl space for seven years before traveling to the North. Linda Brent is the pseudonym for Harriet Jacobs.

    Dawson, Sarah Morgan. A Confederate Girl's Diary. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1913.

    Dawson, Sarah Morgan. The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan. East, Charles ed. University of Georgia Press.Athens and London.1991.

    Emma Edmonds Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battlefields. Hartford, Conn.: W.S. Williams and Co. 1865.

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