The role of women during the American Civil War 10 Articles

by RBChallenger

A pivotal turning point for the United States, the American Civil War provides us with lingering images of extreme violence. With brothers battling side by side and against each other, fathers and sons battling each other ...read more

by Danielle Friedl

The American Civil War of 1861-1865 goes by a variety of names, including 'the war between the states', 'the war of northern aggression' (even though the Confederates fired the first shot on April 12, 1861) and a 'man's fi...read more

by Effie

The role of women, during the American Civil War, signaled the start of women's fight for equal rights. The American woman was very strong, and capable of putting their hand to anything they could, women took on the duties...read more

by Sean Lamb

Aren't I a Woman? How Women used their Sexuality during the American Civil War. In the Gilded Age, Mark Twa...read more

by Molly Carter

During the tumultuous years of the Civil War, women who did not have a right to vote, own property and had few civic liberties of their own, unified in support of the war efforts. Women who had not worked a day in their l...read more

by Sheletha Jones

The diversity of women was never more evident than during the Civil War. During this critical period in American History, the so-called "weaker sex" stepped up and did what they had to do to survive and to foster their ca...read more

by Marcus Brooks

As men from the Union and Confederate armies battled, women were comforting on and off the bloody battlefields. Their sensitivity and elegance helped balance a Civil War's cruelty and bestiality. Their husbands, sons, br...read more

by Ms Inquisitive

Women played many roles during the American Civil War,be it soldiers,nurses,spies,or smugglers. There were those who actively participated in battle,and some were brazen enough to assume the roles of spy and smugglers. Ov...read more

by Autumn J.

When the Civil War began, men from both sides were called away to join the bloody battles, leaving behind frightened and lonely wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters. In a time when it would have been so easy for women to...read more

by Angela Michelle Adams

Of all the wars that has had the most contavercy I would have to say it is the American Civil War that has had the most death total to date I believe. But the role of women during that time is one of the most bravest of ac...read more