In this brief installment of Pioneering Women of Civil War America ~ Ladies’ Union Aid Society, a reenactor at the 2018 Lincoln Repose and Civil War Encampment of the Ohio Statehouse Museum Education Center reveals the roots of women’s aid societies and showcases the supplies they would have gathered or made to support the soldiers at the battlefront during the American Civil War. Do you know what a “housewife” is? And I don’t mean a married woman who manages the home. So. . .watch and learn!

Happy Viewing,

Lisa Y. Potocar

This video compliments my most recent post of “Pioneering Women of Civil War America” about Mover & Shaker Katharine Prescott Wormeley, who supervised the Ladies’ Union Aid Society from her mother’s home in Newport, Rhode Island. If you would like to read more details about Katharine’s incredibly diversified portfolio and charitable contributions to society during and after the American Civil War, please visit my author’s blog at: https://lisapotocarauthor.com/my-blog.