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1. • • Women joined the fight for a variety of reasons including patriotism, adventure, money, and love. They faced a daunting variety of challenges from having to adopt a male disguise and identity to enlisting and maintaining their disguises in camps and battles.
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   How many women fought in the Civil War?

   • More than 400 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. During the Civil War, however, American women turned their attention to the world outside the home. Thousands of women in the North and South joined volunteer brigades and signed up to work as nurses.

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   How did the Civil War affect women?

   • How did these conflicts affect their lives? Historians have estimated that during the English Civil wars, 1642-1649 perhaps as many as 7% of the population died as a result of the fighting and from diseases spread by moving armies. People from all parts of society were impacted by these wars, and this included women.

   Women and the English Civil Wars - The National Archives

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   How did war affect women?

   • People from all parts of society were impacted by these wars, and this included women. Many women were the wives and mothers of soldiers, some of whom never returned from war, as well as carrying out other wartime activities such as nursing.

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   Who were the women soldiers in the Civil War?

   • The women soldiers of the Civil War were mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters and were found in the armies of both the Confederacy and the Union. Some joined to be near a family member—a father, brother or husband. Others answered the recruitment calls found in newspapers and sheet music.

   Women Soldiers in the Civil War, Part 1: Going Behind the Gender Lines

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   What role did women play in the Civil War?

   • During the Civil War, women especially faced a host of new duties and responsibilities. For the most part, these new roles applied the ideals of Victorian domesticity to “useful and patriotic ends.” However, these wartime contributions did help expand many women’s ideas about what their “proper place” should be.

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   How did the Civil War affect the feminist movement?

   • The outbreak of the Civil War challenged traditional American notions of feminine submissiveness and domesticity with hundreds of examples of courage, diligence, and self-sacrifice in battle. The war was a formative moment in the early feminist movement.

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   Feb 5, 2010 · The American Civil War challenged the ideology of Victorian domesticity and prompted women on both sides to get involved as nurses, fundraisers and soldiers.

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   Jan 25, 2013 · The outbreak of the Civil War challenged traditional American notions of feminine submissiveness and domesticity with hundreds of examples of courage, diligence, and self-sacrifice in battle. The war was a formative moment in the early feminist movement.

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   Mar 10, 2024 · Why did women, on both sides, choose to enlist during the American Civil War? The three main reasons that women enlisted in the armies were love, money and patriotism. Nearly a third of documented women soldiers went to war with their husbands or sweethearts.

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   Many women were the wives and mothers of soldiers, some of whom never returned from war, as well as carrying out other wartime activities such as nursing. Use the sources in this lesson to...

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   Dec 1, 2020 · During the Civil War, black and white women had done war work such as nursing and work for the Sanitary Commission and soldiers' aid societies. In the war's aftermath, unlike African American men, woman suffragists failed to successfully make the argument that northern white women's loyalty to the Union and war work entitled them to the franchise.

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   Historians have credited women for their immense contributions during the Civil War, but an important category of women was traditionally ignored: women who took up arms and joined the Union and Confederate armies, disguised as men, to fight in the war. During the war, women on the home front stepped up by taking over farms, running

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    Feb 19, 2013 · Women filled a variety of roles in the Civil War. In addition to women who served as spies, daughters of regiments, cooks, laundresses, and nurses, approximately 400 posed as male soldiers. So, who were these hundreds of women soldiers? Why did they join? And how did they manage to do it?