Her work has previously appeared in The Hollywood Reporter. Helen Viola Jackson, the last known widow of a Civil War soldier, has died. She was 101. Jackson's death was confirmed in a statement by ...

Thomas Jr., “Daisy Anderson, 97, Widow of Former Slave and Union Soldier,” New York Times, 26 Sep 1998. For a discussion of the irony of the participation of the Civil War widows in the Gettysburg ...

Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's ...

The Civil War, as Mercy Street demonstrates ... suggest that 1 in 10 white soldiers died leaving 200,000 war widows. When searching for the larger meanings of the war are these found in ideas ...

Customarily, widows mourned husbands for more than two years, mothers mourned children for one year, and sisters mourned brothers for six months. In the Civil War South, where nearly one out of ...