Women's Role In The Civil War Essay
The American Civil War was, as all wars are, affected not only by the men fighting on the battlefield, but by the women who served on the home front, in military hospitals, and occasionally next to men on the battlefield. Just as women influenced the war, the war changed the world in which the women lived. The women’s rights movement began shortly before the Civil War, and continued through the war, growing stronger as women were touched by the war, and longed for rights equal to men. Women supported men by donating supplies to the effort in both the North and the South. Women served as soldiers, worked in military hospitals, and spied to discover valuable information to aid their homeland. Women were a very valuable resource during the war,
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[x] McPherson, 20.
[xi] Rable, 28.
[xii] Rable, 29.
[xiii] Rable, 18-19.
[xiv] Rable, 17.
[xv] Rable, 17.
[xvi] Rable, 18.
[xvii] Rable, 17-19.
[xviii] Rable, 20-22.
[xix] Jeanie Attie, Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998), 46.
[xx] James L. Roark, et al., The American Promise: A History of United States, 2nd ed. (Boston and New York: Bedford/St Martin’s, 2002), 380.
[xxi] Massey, 153.
[xxii] Massey, 154.
[xxiii] Massey, 154-55
[xxiv] Massey, 161.
[xxv] Massey, 161.
[xxvi] Michael P. Johnson, ed., Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, Volume I: To 1877, 3rd ed. (Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005), 225-26.
[xxvii] Johnson, 225-26.
[xxviii] Roark, 380.
[xxix] Rable, 15-16.
[xxx] Rable, 16.
[xxxi] Rable, 16-17.
[xxxii] Attie, 78.
[xxxiii] Massey, 78.
[xxxiv] Massey, 78.
[xxxv] Massey, 78.
[xxxvi] DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War (New York:Vintage Books, 2002), 25
[xxxvii] Blanton, 25-28.
[xxxviii] Blanton, 25-28.
[xxxix] Blanton, 30-32.
[xl] Massey, 80.
[xli] Massey, 78.
[xlii] Blanton, 30.
[xliii] Blanton,
It was not uncommon that soldiers were pulled off of the field and asked to work in …show more content…
[x] McPherson, 20.
[xi] Rable, 28.
[xii] Rable, 29.
[xiii] Rable, 18-19.
[xiv] Rable, 17.
[xv] Rable, 17.
[xvi] Rable, 18.
[xvii] Rable, 17-19.
[xviii] Rable, 20-22.
[xix] Jeanie Attie, Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998), 46.
[xx] James L. Roark, et al., The American Promise: A History of United States, 2nd ed. (Boston and New York: Bedford/St Martin’s, 2002), 380.
[xxi] Massey, 153.
[xxii] Massey, 154.
[xxiii] Massey, 154-55
[xxiv] Massey, 161.
[xxv] Massey, 161.
[xxvi] Michael P. Johnson, ed., Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, Volume I: To 1877, 3rd ed. (Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005), 225-26.
[xxvii] Johnson, 225-26.
[xxviii] Roark, 380.
[xxix] Rable, 15-16.
[xxx] Rable, 16.
[xxxi] Rable, 16-17.
[xxxii] Attie, 78.
[xxxiii] Massey, 78.
[xxxiv] Massey, 78.
[xxxv] Massey, 78.
[xxxvi] DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War (New York:Vintage Books, 2002), 25
[xxxvii] Blanton, 25-28.
[xxxviii] Blanton, 25-28.
[xxxix] Blanton, 30-32.
[xl] Massey, 80.
[xli] Massey, 78.
[xlii] Blanton, 30.
[xliii] Blanton,