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 ...

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 ...

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 ...