Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Sixteenth Installment)

Cyclone in Calico! In my previous post of Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Fifteenth Installment) about Harriet Tubman, I promised I’d feature another woman of Civil War times who was a “Cyclone in Calico!” Let me now present to you: Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke (1817 – 1901) Background information regarding Mary Ann’s youth is […]