1. W.A. Croffut and John M. Morris, Connecticut in the War, Pg 230.
2. Frank Moore, Women of the War, Pg v.
3. John Niven, Connecticut for the Union, Pg 319.
4. Emerson David Fite, Social and Industrial Conditions in the North, Pg 186.
5. Mary Elizabeth Massey, Women in the Civil War, Pg 144.
6. John Niven, Connecticut for the Union, Footnote from the secretary of the Women's Protective Union of New York; the New York Tribune, Dec. 1864
7. "Petition of Philadelphia women employed at Arsenal 1861" National Archives document. Record Group 92, Entry 225, Consolidated Correspondence File, Box 798
8. Mary Elizabeth Massey, Women in the Civil War, Pg 145 and 146.
9. Emerson David Fite, Social and Industrial Conditions in the North, Pg 188.
10. Mary Elizabeth Massey, Women in the Civil War, Pg 132, Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval in the service of the United States.
11. Mary Livermore, My Story of the War, Pg 141.
12. Mary Elizabeth Massey, Women in the Civil War, Pg 130.
13. Emerson David Fite, Social and Industrial Conditions in the North, Pg 282.
14. The New York Times, Editorial, September 21, 1865.
15. Jeanie Attie, Divided Houses, Gender and the Civil War, 'Warwork and the Crisis of Domesticity in the North', Pg 254.6. Ibid., Pg 248.
17. Mary Livermore, My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative, Pg 136.
18. Ibid., Pg 137.
19. Harold Earl Hammond, (ed.) Diary of a Union Lady, 1861 - 1865, Pg 276.
20. Emerson David Fite, Social and Industrial Conditions in the North, Pg 277.
21. Anne L. MacDonald, No Idle Hands, Pg 99.
22. Harper's Weekly, April 16, 1864, The Metropolitan Fair, Pg 246
23. Marilyn Mayer Culpepper, Trials and Triumphs, The Women of the American Civil War, Pg 257.
24. Harper's Weekly, April 16, 1864, Pg 246.
25. Marilyn Mayer Culpepper, Trials and Triumphs, The Women of the American Civil War, Pg 258, Letters in the collection of the Northwestern, Chicago Historical Society.
26. Harper's Weekly, April 23, 1864, The Metropolitan Fair, Pg 260.
27. Emerson David Fite, Social and Industrial Conditions in the North, Pg 282.
28. McCarthy, Women in Culture, Pg 40.
29. Harper's Weekly, April 23, 1864, Pg 246.
30. Mary Elizabeth Massey, Women in the Civil War, Pg 52. Pg 46.
32. Ibid., Pg 47.
33. Ibid., Pg 51.
34. Ibid., Pg 54.
35. Frank Moore, Women of the War, Pg 580.
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