CABOT — Howard Coffin, historian and author, will speak on “Vermont Women and the Civil War,” Sunday, April 6, 3 p.m., in the Willey Building. This event was postponed last week because of inclement weather.
His talk Sunday focuses on how women took on farming, worked in factories, served as nurses in the state’s military hospitals, and more. At least one Vermont woman appears to have secretly enlisted and fought in a Vermont regiment. With nearly 35,000 of the state’s able-bodied men at war, the monumental tasks of keeping more than 30,000 farms in operation became very much a female enterprise.
Coffin is the author of four books on the Civil War: “Something Abides: Discovering the Civil War in Today’s Vermont”; “Full Duty: Vermonters in the Civil War; Nine Months to Gettysburg”; and “The Battered Stars”, as well as “Guns Over the Champlain Valley,” a book on military sites along the Champlain Corridor.
