Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868

by Cokie Roberts

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  Notes

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  INTRODUCTION

  1 took advantage of the GI Bill: U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau, Women Workers in Ten War Production Areas a
nd Their Postwar Employment Plans, Bulletin 209 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946); “History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web,” George Mason University, last modified June 11, 2014, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/7027/; “Partners in Winning the War: American Women in World War II,” National Women’s History Museum, last modified 2007, http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/partners/exhibitentrance.html.

  2 mothers in the workforce: “Employment Characteristics of Families—2013,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, last modified April 25, 2014, www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.nr0.htm.

  3 “but talent outranks it”: Margaret Howell to Joseph Howell, October 29, 1854, in Jefferson Davis: Private Letters, 1823–1889, ed. Hudson Strode (Boston: Da Capo Press, 1995), 79.

  4 new federal agencies: “The Civil War—150 Years: National Park Service Sesquicentennial Commemoration,” National Park Service, last modified February 2, 2011, www.nps.gov/features/waso/cw150th/reflections/legacy/page3.html.

  5 “a sphere of life and action”: Linus Pierpont Brockett and Mary C. Vaughn, Woman’s Work in the Civil War (Philadelphia: Zeigler, McCurdy, 1867), e-book, loc. 1501.

  CHAPTER 1: MEET THE WOMEN OF WASHINGTON

  7 “opposite and distant parts of the Union”: Catherine Allgor, “The Politics of Love,” Humanities 31, no. 1 (January/February 2010).

  7 bright sunlight greeted them: Daily National Intelligencer, July 6, 1848, http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/.

  8 “the residence of Congress”: Frederick L. Harvey, The History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society (Washington, DC: N. T. Elliott, 1902), e-book, loc. 38.

  8 “aid in collecting funds”: Ibid., 554.

  8 “collected about $87,000”: Constance McLaughlin Green, Washington Village and Capital, 1800–1878 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962), 171.

  8 “weighing twenty-four thousand five hundred pounds”: Harvey, National Monument, 621.

  8 “touchingly and eloquently”: Daily National Intelligencer..

  9 “picture of Gen. Washington is secured”: Madison to Lucy Payne Todd, August 24, 1814, in Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, ed. David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003), 193.