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Women in the Civil War






Before the Civil War, the women in society were private and stay at home caretakers. Their lives were based around the culture of "the Cult of True Womanhood,". The men were the money makers working outside of the home, while the women were "true women", making sure that the home was a clean and nurturing home for the family. Once the Civil War started, women start to be seen more and more outside of there home. Thousands of women from both sides started to volunteer in the army and signed up to work as nurses. In the North, groups of women would start "ladies" aid societies that would help give the troops food, clothing, knitted socks, gloves and blankets. These aids would also do their part in trying to raise money through fun raisers and performances. More and more females were joining the nursing job. One nurse, Clara Barton, even had the audacity to be the founder of the American Red Cross. You can still find that red cross wherever you might find human suffering. She was a role model to many females. Whichever women wanted to join the the military had to pass her self off as a man. Women would join the military weather it was either for the money, to find loved ones, to be adventurous, or to just help out and support the confederacy for the South or the Union for the North. The South had less money then the North. The ladies also cooked and made clothes for the men in the army. The untrained nurses would work in the small makeshift hospitals. The more wealthy southern women would have slaves to do all of there work for them. Even the women that didn't have to do much had to get out of "proper" female behavior and had to answer societies urgent need for support. Freed slave women are not allowed to join the Union in the fight. Over the coarse of the Civil War, women were forced to re think their idea of what it is to be a "proper women".

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