Essay: Women and the Homefront: New Civil War Scholarship

Women and the Home Front: New Civil War Scholarship | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Author Catherine Clinton has written a great essay about how the study of women in the Civil War has gone from almost nonexistent to booming in just the last fifty or so years.  I hope to eventually be one of those who contributes to that field.

Photograph: Confederate States Laboratory

The Confederate Interior

From the Virginia Historical Society is an Alexander Gardner photograph of the Confederate States Laboratory on Brown's Island shortly after the fall of Richmond. Detailed description on the page.

Video: What caused the Allegheny Arsenal explosion?

http://www.travelchannel.com/video/allegheny-arsenal-explosion

Gotta love staying up late...my mother informed me that one of last night's "Mysteries at the Museum" on the Travel Channel talked about the Allegheny Arsenal explosion. This talks about bullets found in the carnage of the Arsenal, now at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. The video features History Center CEO Andy Masich.

Sermon commemorative of the great explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal

Sermon commemorative of the great explosion at ...

Here, you can read the entire sermon given by the Reverend Richard Lea of the local Presbyterian church after the Allegheny Arsenal explosion. It extolls the positives that came from the tragedy, such as how quickly help arrived and how it brought the Lawrenceville community together.

Article: 1862 Allegheny Arsenal Explosion "gruesome"

| TribLIVE | Pittsburgh

This article about the Allegheny Arsenal explosion from the Tribune-Review is a few years old, but still good and relevent. It features Allan Becer, who has done so much to help me in my research by sharing his own.

Article: Pittsburgh's Allegheny Arsenal and the Civil War

Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Arsenal and the Civil War - Pittsburgh American history | Examiner.com

This is a great article by Chuck Stephens from about a couple weeks ago (how did I miss it?)about the history of the Allegheny Arsenal. Check it.

Primary source win

Petition from Philadelphia Women Employed at an Arsenal to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, 07/29/1862

This is a petition from the National Archives from women and children working at the Schuylkill Arsenal in Philadelphia. They are begging Secretary of War Stanton not to eliminate their jobs, as there was talk of doing. In the abscense of men, these women were dependent on these wages.