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Vermont Women and the Civil War
Vermont historian Howard Coffin tells the story of Vermont Women and the Civil War in their words -- from letters and diaries that describe life from 1861-1865 in the Green Mountain State.
Vermont’s remarkable Civil War battlefield record is well documented, but little is known of how Vermont women sustained the home front. With nearly 35,000 of the state’s able-bodied men at war, the monumental tasks of keeping more than 30,000 farms in operation became very much a female enterprise. And women took the place of men in factories and worked after hours making items needed by the soldiers.