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"Bonnet Brigades at Fifty: Reflections on Mary Elizabeth Massey and Gender in Civil War History," Civil War History (2015) 61#4 pp 400–444. Cashin, Joan E. "American Women and the American Civil War" Journal of Military History (2017) 81#1 pp 199–204. McDevitt, Theresa. Women and the American Civil War: an annotated bibliography (Praeger ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 September 2024. See also: Gender issues in the American Civil War § Female soldiers Women in war Ancient Post-classical 1500–1699 18th-century 1800–1899 1900–1945 The world wars WWI WWII 1945–1999 2000–present Numerous women enlisted and fought as men in the American Civil War. Historian ...
Nurses during the American Civil War. During the American Civil War (1861–1865) Dorothea Dix served as the Union's Superintendent of Female Nurses throughout the war, and was in charge of all female nurses working in army hospitals, which was over 3,000 nurses. [118]
Margaret Garner (called Peggy) (c. 1833/1834–c.1858) was an enslaved African American woman in pre-Civil War United States who was notorious—or celebrated—for killing her own daughter after being captured following her escape, rather than allowing the child to be returned to slavery.
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Women during the Reconstruction era following the US Civil War, from 1863 to 1877, acted as the heads of their households due to the involvement of men in the war, and presided over their farm and family members throughout the country. Following the war, there was a great surge for education among women and to coincide with this, a great need ...
America has been shattered in “Civil War.” An armed alliance between Texas and California known as the Western Forces is on the verge of recapturing a besieged capital.
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