Womans Roles in Civil War

Key Points

• Helped nurse soldiers to better health
• took care of the farm when the husband was goune, did all the farm and house work.
• alot of woman were spyes.
• and alot of woman would dress up as men and fight in battles.

(repeated material below, you need QUOTES!!) Need way more info here.   Don't put any image unless it has a purpose - and that purpose should be to inform!!!

     Woman were a very important role in the civil war. Women played an enormous part in the family and home life of soldiers, and theyhad a significant hand in how the War progressed and eventually ended. With the men running off left and right to sign up for the cause, women were left behind to carry out the man's duties at home. As the War progressed, many women of the South had to take on the work of the slaves who had either been freed, or run away.

There were no trained nurses. By June 1861, it was decided that Dorothea Dix

would be appointed Superintendant of Army Nurses by order of President Lincoln and Secretary of War

Cameron.

http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html

Disguised as a man (left), Frances Clayton served many months in Missouri artillery and cavalry units. (By courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library)

There were alot of woman going in as spies. for instance, see the picture above. this was a woman disguised as a man. In addition to all this, women went as far as to be spies and soldiers for both sides. Knowing that women were not able by law to enlist as soldiers, some disguised themselves as men and served in both the Union and Confederate Armies. Many who did this were able to avoid getting caught, and served until either getting wounded or until the War's end. Other women decided that being a spy was the best way to serve, and there were dozens of Southern, female spies in Washington DC, as well as one Northerner being in the Confederate White House.  

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/bull/cwwomen.html

     One of the most recognized woman in the civil war was Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the "Moses of her people." Over the course of 10 years, and at great personal risk, she led hundreds of slaves to fredom along the Underground Railroad, a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves could stay on their journey north to freedom. She later became a leader in the abolitionist movement, and during the Civil War she was a spy with for the federal forces in South Carolina as well as a nurse.

Harriet Tubman's name at birth was Araminta Ross. She was one of 11 children of Harriet and Benjamin Ross born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland. As a child, Ross was "hired out" by her master as a nursemaid for a small baby, much like the nursemaid in the picture. Ross had to stay awake all night so that the baby wouldn't cry and wake the mother. If Ross fell asleep, the baby's mother whipped her. From a very young age, Ross was determined to gain her freedom.

http://americancivilwar.com/women/harriet_tubman.html