The women depicted in “SOUTHERN COURAGE” were real, and their Civil War accounts were drawn directly from their diaries and letters or based on documents and letters written by those who knew them.

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LIDA DUTTON
    To Talk is Treason, ed. and annotated by John Divine, Bronwen Souders, John Souders, pub’d by The Waterford Foundation, (1996) (PO Box 142, Waterford, VA  20197), The Waterford News, Vol. 1-7, The Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, Virginia

VIRGINIA MILLER
    The Diary of Miss Virginia J. Miller 1861-1862, The Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, Virginia

HOSPITAL GIRL
    The Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the Rebellion, Hurlbut, Williams and Company, 1866, p. 612  (Amy Ulland Collection)

ELIZABETH CARTER of OATLANDS PLANTATION
     Journal of Elizabeth Osbourne Carter, July 1, 1860 to October 31, 1872, Oatlands Plantation, Leesburg
Court Records: George Carter VS Benjamin Carter, concerning WV property - from transcript held at Oatlands Plantation, Leesburg

RACHEL MEANS
    Waterford Perspectives, Education Ctte. of The Waterford Foundation, Waterford, Virginia

MARY E. LACK
    The Diary of Miss Mary E. Lack, The Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, Virginia: William Whitmore Collection

ELIZA HAMMERLY
    Letter from Tom [Likely: Tom Syphert] dated August 16, 1863. Civil War Letters, Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, Virginia

SLAVE WOMAN
    January 28, 1862 letter written by Union Private Oliver Wilcox Norton, 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry - from The Brothers’ War, Annette Tapert, Vintage Books (1988)

LIZZIE DUTTON
    From Rebecca K. Williams Diary August 12, 1861 to August 27, 1861, Archives of The Waterford Foundation, Waterford, Virginia

KATE POWELL CARTER
    The Diary of Kate Powell Carter, June 30, 1862, The Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, Virginia

MRS. MINOR
    Leesburg, Virginia — Statements Relative to Disloyalists There, No. 94 Records of the Adjustant General’s Office, 1780’s to 1917, National Archives, Turner-Baker Papers, Baker #839

HENRIETTA ANKERS
    The Ankers of Virginia and Our Roots, by Robert E. Ankers, Jr. (1992)

SARAH STEER
    Friends Intelligencer, Vol. XXII and XXIII, March 1866 and January 1867, Archives of John Divine

ROSANNA GRUBB THOMPSON
    Hillsboro: Memories of a Milltown, written by Emily Barbee, published by the Hillsboro Bicentennial Committee (1976)

​CARRIE TAYLOR
    Letter from Carrie Taylor to her sister Hannah Stabler, December 3, 1864, Civil War Letters, The Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, Virginia