About
Carolyn Ivanoff is a retired high school administrator, author, and independent historian. She writes and speaks frequently on American history in a variety of formats and venues. As an author, researcher, and presenter much of her work focuses on 19th century America including social, medical, and material culture, the American Civil War, and Connecticut. At the heart of her research and published works are firsthand, primary source accounts of the people of the Civil War generation. Carolyn Ivanoff is the author of two books, We Fought at Gettysburg-Firsthand Accounts by the Survivors of the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry and Cornelia Hancock’s Civil War-A Heart Touched by Fire from Gettysburg to the Grand Review. As a presenter her programs include educational and historical presentations for museums, libraries, schools, community organizations, Civil War round tables, and living history venues.
Featured Work
Cornelia Hancock's Civil War - A Heart Touched by Fire from Gettysburg to the Grand Review
In 1863 Cornelia Hancock, a 23-year-old Quaker from New Jersey wrote, "After my only brother and every other male relative and friend that we possessed had gone to war, I deliberately came to the conclusion that I, too, would go and serve my country." Three days after the great battle of Gettysburg she was the first woman to reach the Third Division, Second Corps Hospital at the Jacob Schwartz farm where over 3,200 desperately wounded men lay in the fields. Cornelia Hancock nursed heroically until the end of the war. Her story is told through her letters, some of the most fascinating first-hand correspondence of the Civil War. This book is a tribute to her and to all the women of the American Civil War who sacrificed and served.
Other Works
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We Fought at Gettysburg - Firsthand Accounts by the Survivors of the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
2023
