In honor of Women’s History Month, Katie Wolfe and other ladies of the 62nd PA Volunteer Infantry Living History Family will give a presentation on March 21st at 1:00 at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall located at 300 Beechwood Ave. Carnegie, PA 15106 on The Influence of Women in the Civil War.

Drawn from an 1862 Harper’s Weekly illustration of the same title, “The Influence of Women” will explore the many ways in which women worked, served, sacrificed, and overcame during the Civil War. Women were everywhere during the war, serving both on the home front and on the front lines. This talk will include vignettes on…

Gone for a Soldier: Women Who Served
Hidden in Hair and Hoopskirts: Women as Spies
“Brave and Faithful”: Marie Tepe
The War on the Homefront
“The Angel on the Battlefield”: Nurses, Doctors, and Civilians
“She Ranks Me”: Mother Bickerdyke
A Mother’s Grief: The 62nd Pennsylvania
“Just Before the Battle Mother”: Civil War Music as a Comfort

This presentation is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there as we share the incredible stories of women’s influence in the Civil War!