Women+in+the+Civil+War

 
 * Women In The Civil War**

** Women served as nurses, provided food, provisions, and liquors to soldiers. They also
 * How did women help?

were peddlers who sold goods to military units in the field, and as Union and

Confederate soldiers. They also acted as spies. Women also founded groups such as The

Sick Soldier's Relief Society and the Soldier's Aid Society. Women made bandages for

the wounded and knit socks to keep the soldier's feet warm and dry. Some women

even worked to manufacture arms, ammunition, and uniforms, and other supplies for

the soldiers. In fact, about 900,000 rounds to deliver small arms munitions in 1864

were made by women.


 * Who are these women? **

"Major" Pauline Cushman She claimed Confederate sympathy while she actually spied for the Union. Her

disguise was often an actress. Dr. Mary Walker

Dr. Mary Walker was a surgeon in the war. She was awarded the nation's highest

honor by President Andrew Johnson. Dr. Walker was an early suffragette, one of the

earliest women physicians, a champion for more comfortable clothing for women, and

a pioneer for women in man areas that we take for granted today.

Dorothea Dix Dorothea Dix volunteered her services and was named Superintendent of United States

Army Nurses. Her tasks were to organize first aid stations, recruit nurses, purchase

supplies and help to set up training facilities and field hospitals.Wounded soldiers called

her an "angel of mercy," but the nurses thought her rigid and imperious.

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