HISTORY TALK: WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR April 13th at 2PM

The Neversink Valley Museum is opening its new 2019 Season of History Talks on the afternoon of April 13th with local historian and civil war re-enactor Yvonne Bigney who will take her audience on what she calls “a journey into the other side of the Civil War” – the feminine side in a History Talk about “Women in the Civil War”
We hear much about the generals and battles of the War Between the States, but not very much about the women who nursed the wounded and dying on the battlefields, risked their lives on secret missions, fought right alongside the men, or ran their family farms and raised their children while their menfolk were away.
The audience will meet soldiers such as Kady Brownell, who carried regimental flags into battle, and nurses like Mary Anne “Mother” Bickerdyke, who was admired by General Sherman for her work on behalf of his disabled soldiers. “Mother” had to fight with the doctors to get his solider’s the best of care but never with Sherman or Grant! “She outranks me,” the famous Union general wryly said of her when his subordinates complained about her dictatorial methods.
The elegant Rose Greenhow used her charm and social connections to work for the Confederacy as a spy.
Mary A. Livermore, an abolitionist, and activist with the U.S. Sanitary Commission was one of many women, like Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix, who introduced modern concepts of medical treatment, hygiene, and compassion to a world where appalling casualty rates among combatants were considered acceptable.
Yvonne Bigney has been a Civil War re-enactor with the 124th New York State Volunteers and the 15th New York State Volunteer Cavalry. A popular lecturer for more than 25 years, she will cover many other notable women of the period, some famous and some not.

This History Talk will be held Saturday, April 13, 2019, at 2:00 PM at the D & H Canal Park Visitor’s Center, 58 Hoag Road, (just off Route 209) Cuddebackville, NY. Suggested donation is $5.00 for members and $7.00 for non-members. Light refreshments will be served.
This event benefits The Neversink Valley Museum of History and Innovation in Cuddebackville, NY. The Museum is open Saturdays and Sundays from noon until 4:00 pm through the last weekend in October and by appointment. For more information about the museum, its mission to preserve local history or any events, call (845) 754-8870 or check the website: www.neversinkmuseum.org. Or email at nvam@neversinkmuseum.org

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