1864-1865 FEMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY MAG. Civil War Widows, Prostitution, Work-Houses, Sex Trafficking, &c.

Very scarce volume including two full years of an important periodical created for the edification of women and raising funds and advocacy for societies to rescue vulnerable women from poverty, work houses, prostitution, etc., The periodical became especially important as women would become the "home guard" during the Civil War and the number of single mothers in the years after the war reached statistically unsustainable levels, leading to an upswing in prostitution and female enslavement, etc., 

Provides critical insight into views of the idealized woman of the era, etc. etc. Other subjects as well. Take a moment to scan through the contents. Excellent and very scarce.

Includes a special "mourning issue" after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 

The Advocate and Family Guardian. A Semi-Monthly Periodical. The Organ of the American Female Guardian Society, Home for the Friendless and Home Industrial Schools. New York. American Female Guardian Society. 1864. 290pp

Contents include:

East Tennesee - Facts and Features by Mrs. William Mowbray [series]; What Woman May Do; A Week of Special Prayer; Letters from a Western Lady; A Life Given for Freedom [death of Union soldiers]; The Shunamite; The Barefooted Child; A Voice from the Camp [Letter from Union Camp at Rappahannock, Virginia, 1863 of the 126th New York Volunteers]; Who Shall be Great Among Christ's Disciples; The Great Conflict [Civil War]; Incidents in a Military Hospital; God Leads me Like a Tired Child; Home Industrial Schools; Praying Mothers; Ray's Mental Hygiene; The Old Black Man [on his anger at God for black slavery and poverty; touching]; From a Chaplain in the Army; The Murderer and His Family; The Soldiers' Children; Mission Work among the Schools; A Consecrated Hour; Working-Women's Protective Union; Slavery - The Achan in the Camp by Mrs. William Mowbray; Your Soldier Son by O. Eaton; What we can do to Abate Crime; Soldiers Tears by Mrs. William Mowbray; What is the Cause of the War? Counsel to Adopted Children; Letters about "Home" Children [children placed, sometimes adopted and sometimes as something like a domestic]; The Dress Question; The Albany Home for the Friendless; Blessed is He that Considereth the Poor; A Visit to the Mariners' Family Asylum; The Blood-Stained Letter from Appomattox; The Call to Loyal Women; Letter from a Field Hospital; A Word to Foster Parents; The National Fast Day; "Rights" of Slaveholders; Work among the Degraded not a Vain Work; Education of Women; The Drunken House; The Fulton Street Prayer Meeting [Prayer Revivals]; The Fugitive Slave Law [praise for the repeal of]; To the Women of Our Country; The Truant Law not Dead; The Election - What can we Do?; Ungodly Children; Soldiers and their Mothers; The Spirit of Our Solders and Sailors; The Baby is Dead; Proclamation of Thanksgiving by the President of the United States [Abraham Lincoln]' Cobweb Saloon; Lovable Christians by T. L. Cuyler; etc. etc. 

The Advocate and Family Guardian. A Semi-Monthly Periodical. The Organ of the American Female Guardian Society, Home for the Friendless and Home Industrial Schools. New York. American Female Guardian Society. 1865. 292pp

Contents include:

The Motherless; The Blind Man; The Zulus as Christians; Why so Many Children are Ungodly by C. C. North; Women as Clerks; A Word from the Poor Girls; The Effect of a Pious Mother's Example by Jacob Eaton - Chaplain of the 7th Regiment [Civil War]; The Drunkard's Boy; Georgie the Soldier-Boy, or, Little Carrie's Gift and what Became of It; City Tenement Houses; Letter from a Wounded Soldier to a Lady; Letter from an Army Chaplain to a Friend in New York; Charleston, South Carolina - Then and Now; A Morning Prayer Meeting Long t be Remembered [first-hand account of a "colored" service in Charleston, South Carolina]; Extracts from the Inaugural Address of March 4th, 1865; Scenes and Songs from the House of Bondage by Jane Boswell Moore [on Slavery, Frederick Douglass, etc., extensive]; A Voice from Honolulu; Am I My Brother's Keeper?; Etchings at Fort Sumpter by T. L. Cuyler; Letters from Guardians and Foster Parents; No Sect in Heaven; A Word to Soldiers and Societies; Novel-Reading and Insanity; How Mormonism Works; Songs upon the Battle-Field; Death of Mrs. Sigourney; Reconstruction; A Voice from Women to His Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States; Reminiscences of Our Late President [Abraham Lincoln]; The Dumb Child; Mustered Out; The Freedman's Bureau; Compensation of the Freedman; The Power of the Gospel; The Homes of the Poor; The Inebriate's Conversion; Farewell of the Sanitary Commission; Our Soldier Brother; I Ain't Got Clothes ; The Mother's Concert of Prayer; Ventilate Your Children's Rooms; Ho! For the Country; Vassar Female Institute; Child-Killing in England; Armless and Footless - An Hour with Our Wounded Soldiers; The Sheltering Arms and Infant Asylum; Left Home in Health - Returned a Corpse; Labor and Laborers in the South [Reconstruction - Poor Whites - Colored People, etc.]; Spiritualism; The National Thanksgiving [Letter by President Andrew Johnson]; Aaron Burr's Death-Bed - Reflections of a Relative; Footless [Soldiers]; Temperance Cadets; etc. 

Special mourning issue on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the entire issue lined in  black. Includes: The Voice of God to the Nation; The Murderer; Juvenile Patriotism; A New Era; Peace; The Death of Abraham Lincoln, etc. 

In good + condition, bound in half leather, hinges are tender, but still generally solid, with light foxing.