Heroines of the Confederate States of America

A politically incorrect tribute on the occasion of Women's History Month 2010
Varina Howell Davis
First Lady of the Confederacy
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/leaders_varinadavis.html#________________________________________
Mary Boykin Chesnut
The Confederacy's Renown Diaristhttp://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chesnut/bio.html
Diary here: http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chesnut/menu.html ________________________________________
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Famous Confederate Spy and Courier to Europehttp://www.mycivilwar.com/leaders/greenhow_rose.htm________________________________________
Belle Boyd
Confederate Spy and "Cleopatra of Secession"
http://civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/maria-belle-boyd.html________________________________________
Emma Sansom, Gallant Frarm Girl of Alabamahttp://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1360________________________________________
LaGrange, Georgia's female militia, The Nancy Harts
Named for a Georgia heroine of the American Revolution
http://www.forttyler.com/nancyharts.htm
http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/nancyharts.html________________________________________
The Women of Roswell Mills, Georgia
Civilian captives of the Yankee invader
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1086

Photos: Varina Davis, Wikipedia; Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina; Belle Boyd, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina; Mary Boykin Chesnut, City of Alexandria website: Emma Sansom, Alabama Archives and History via FindAGrave.