An Annual Conference on 19th Century Media and Free Expression
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L was a Woman: Lois B. Adams, Special Correspondent to the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, 1863-1865.
During the Civil War years Lois B. Adams was a newspaper correspondent for the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune. A well known Michigan author and editor before the war, she wrote as though to her friends and neighbors in a sisterly style about the events and people in the Washington, D.C. In addition to her newspaper work she was a civil service clerk in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a volunteer visitor in the area hospitals. She covered all this and more in her regular column, often giving a local slant to events. Politics were important to Adams and she was for Lincoln and all he stood for. Issues concerning women were covered in her columns, especially the women who worked for a living. Adams was a keen observer of the African Americans in Washington during the war and often included news about them in her ‘Letter from Washington.’ Few of the women who wrote as newspaper correspondents during this period have been discovered, giving special significance to the views Adams expresses. She was a talented, interesting writer and she makes the period come alive with her commentary.
Dr. Kittrell Rushing or Dr. David Sachsman 311 Frist Hall Communication Department The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403-2598 http://www.utc.edu/commdept/conference/
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