She went on to study nursing, and volunteered her services at the outbreak of the Civil War. She began by significantly ... Peake Among the many Northern women who followed Union armies to ...

Black men and women ... purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to end slavery. Throughout this time, northern black ...

Misconception: Only men fought during the Civil War While it’s true that women weren’t legally permitted ... from both the Northern and Southern perspectives, in order to get the words just ...

Hundreds of women secretly joined the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. Some women were brazen enough to enlist as self-appointed officers, or double as female spies. National ...

The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg has expanded its Women at War exhibit. The display highlights the essential ...

We have previously taken a brief look at female doctors who served during the Civil War; today, with Veterans' Day upon us, we examine a number of women physicians who served in twentieth-century wars ...

The Women’s Fight is the story of women, both North and South, who made sacrifices in order to survive the Civil War, and how they contributed to the significant political, social and economic changes ...