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This Female Civil War Soldier Participated in the Bloodiest Battle in American History and Spied on the South—or Did She?
Leonard, author of All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies. “Her primary goal was to use her variety of ...
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The Women Who Went Into the Field
This coalition of strong women was known as the Women’s Relief Corps. They were to be dubbed the auxiliary of the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic). Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony ...
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Women’s Role in the War Effort
Women served in the Civil War as nurses, spies, and vivandières. Explore these stories with students through a video clip and close examination of two dresses and a woman's uniform. This lesson plan ...
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Albert Cashier, the woman who fought as a man for the Union
There are over 400 documented cases of women disguising themselves as men to fight for both the Union and the Confederacy. One of the most famous female soldiers of the American Civil War was ...
How Black Civil War Patriots Should Be Remembered This Veterans Day
O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country ...