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Mary and Molly (or "Mollie") Bell were two young women from Pulaski County, Virginia [1] who disguised themselves as men and fought in the American Civil War for the Confederacy. The pair successfully managed to keep their gender hidden from their fellow soldiers and the military for two years while fighting in several major battles, until they ...
Thavolia Glymph is an American historian and professor. She is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Duke University. [1] She specializes in nineteenth-century US history, African-American history and women’s history, authoring Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008) and The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom ...
This category is for notable women of the American Civil War. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
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 ...
The first Ladies' Memorial Association (LMA) sprang up immediately after the end of the Civil War in Winchester, Virginia, which had suffered significantly during the war. Mary Dunbar Williams of Winchester organized a group of women to give proper burial to Confederate dead whose bodies were found in the countryside, and to decorate those ...
The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century (1984, 2nd edition, New York: Hill and Wang, 1999) Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War [Co-editor] (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) Half-Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past [editor] (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994)
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Her letters remain one of the few surviving primary accounts of female soldiers in the American Civil War. [27] [28] Laura J. Williams was a woman who disguised herself as a man and used the alias Lt. Henry Benford in order to raise and lead a company of Texas Confederates. She and the company participated in the Battle of Shiloh. [29] [30]