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Dolores “Del” Hainer, Interviewed By Rebecca Pelletier And Elizabeth Fowler, Part 2, Dolores F. Hainer
Dolores “Del” Hainer, Interviewed By Rebecca Pelletier And Elizabeth Fowler, Part 2, Dolores F. Hainer
MF144 Women in the Military
Dolores “Del” (Theriault) Hainer, interviewed by Rebecca Pelletier and Elizabeth Fowler, November 10, 2000, Hampden, Maine. Hainer talks about joining the army after World War II; her basic training in Camp Lee, VA; and being stationed in San Antonio, TX. Text: 34 pp. transcript. Time: 1 hour 17 minutes.
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Dolores “Del” Hainer, Interviewed By Rebecca Pelletier And Elizabeth Fowler, Part 1, Dolores F. Hainer
Dolores “Del” Hainer, Interviewed By Rebecca Pelletier And Elizabeth Fowler, Part 1, Dolores F. Hainer
MF144 Women in the Military
Dolores “Del” (Theriault) Hainer, interviewed by Rebecca Pelletier and Elizabeth Fowler, November 10, 2000, Hampden, Maine. Hainer talks about joining the army after World War II; her basic training in Camp Lee, VA; and being stationed in San Antonio, TX. Text: 34 pp. transcript. Time: 1 hour 17 minutes.
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Beneath The Mulberry Tree: Sarah Edmonds And Women In Memory, Anika N. Jensen
Beneath The Mulberry Tree: Sarah Edmonds And Women In Memory, Anika N. Jensen
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
In her memoir Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, Sarah Emma Edmonds, a woman fighting in the Union Army disguised as a man, employed florid diction and a subtle romantic flare to illustrate an emotional and confounding moment in the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam: discovering another woman undercover. Edmonds writes of the “pale, sweet face of a youthful soldier,” of a boy trembling from blood loss who, she knew, had only a few more minutes on earth. He tasted his last sip of water, and with his remaining breaths the soldier beckoned Edmonds closer and uttered a …
Ready, Aim, Feminism: When Women Went Off To War, Anika N. Jensen
Ready, Aim, Feminism: When Women Went Off To War, Anika N. Jensen
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
I like to imagine that if Sarah Emma Edmonds were my contemporary she would often sport a t-shirt saying, "This is what a feminist looks like."
Edmonds was a patriot, a feminist, and, along with an estimated 400 other women, a soldier in the American Civil War. Fed up with her father’s abuse and appalled at the prospect of an arranged marriage Edmonds left her New Brunswick home at the age of fifteen and soon adopted a male identity to become a successful worker. When the war erupted, she was compelled by a sense of patriotism and adventure to join …