End Notes
1. Bridgeport Daily Advertiser and Weekly Farmer, May 22, 1861
2. Bridgeport Daily Standard, August 26, 1861
3. Clinton, Catherine and Nina Silber. Divided Houses, Gender and the Civil War. "Warwork and the Crisis of Domesticity in the North". New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. page 248.
4. Clinton, Catherine and Nina Silber. Divided Houses, Gender and the Civil War. "Warwork and the Crisis of Domesticity in the North". New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. page 254.
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Primary Sources
Bridgeport Daily Advertiser and Weekly Farmer, May 22, 1861.
Bridgeport Daily Standard, August 26, 1861.
City of Bridgeport Directory, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1890, 1895, 1914, 1917, 1920.
Glimpses of Bridgeport, Conn. 1898., Introduction by Salmon Goodsell, under the authority of the Board of Trade, copyrighted by John H. Kane and Frank A. Wood, Publishers, Press OF THE MARIGOLD PRINTING CO., BRIDGEPORT, CONN., 1898.
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