If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime

Book excerpt: If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime by the United States Children's Bureau is a practical pamphlet about traveling as a mother during the Civil War. Excerpt: "Have you been on a train lately? The railroads have a hard job to do these days, one they are doing well. But before you decide on a trip with a baby, you should realize what a wartime train is like. So let's look into one. This train is crowded. At every stop, more people get on—more and still more. Soldiers and sailors on furloughs, men on business trips, women—young and not so young—and babies, lots of them, mostly small. The seats are full. People stand and jostle one another in the aisle. Mothers sit crowded into single seats with toddlers or with babies in their laps."