Secrets of the Civil War: Survival Off the Battlefields

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today, let’s talk about what life was like during the Civil War for people who weren’t on the battlefield. What did they get up and do every day? What did they worry about? We’ll witness the war through the eyes of five women whose stories are symbolic of the real experiences–the hopes, the sorrows, the loneliness and the joy–that countless women endured during the Civil War.

Special thanks to the curators of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Museum, including Sister Lavonia “Lee” Bailey, Reverend Edward Maurice Bailey, Nelson Polite, and Minnie P. Vinson.

Hosted by: Sharon McMahon

Executive Producer: Heather Jackson

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

Written and researched by: Heather Jackson, Valerie Hoback, Amy Watkin, and Mandy Reid

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome.
0:06.4	I am Glider Jordan Meadeh for episode 6 of Secrets of the Civil War.
0:11.6	I want to talk to you about what life was like during the Civil War for people who weren't
0:16.5	on the battlefield.
0:18.0	How were their daily lives impacted?
0:20.2	What did they get up and do every day?
0:22.4	What did they worry about?
0:24.0	Of course, the answer to that question changes drastically depending on who person was and
0:28.9	where they lived.
0:30.5	One of our team members recently took a trip to the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Museum
0:35.2	in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to speak with their historians and read dozens of diary entries,
0:41.4	letters and personal accounts so together.
0:45.1	We'll witness the war through the eyes of five women whose stories were sharing from
0:49.4	their recorded histories.
0:51.8	They are symbolic of the real experiences, the hopes, the sorrows, the loneliness and the
0:57.3	joy that countless women endured during the Civil War.
1:00.8	So let's meet Sally, Minnie, Virginia, Jane and Abigail.
1:07.8	I'm Sharon McMahon and here's where it gets interesting.
1:13.4	Sally stood for a moment, her mind racing.
1:17.6	She'd started her life in Virginia enslaved from birth and had been taken from her parents
1:23.1	as a teenager and sold to the enslaver of a large plantation many miles away.
1:29.6	She'd picked cotton, head down and back hunched for nearly 20 years before she was considered
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