Useful Links
“Men were not the only ones to fight that war. Women bore arms and charged into battle, too. Like the men, there were women who lived in camp, suffered in prisons, and died for their respective causes.”
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html
Female Soldiers in the Civil War: On the Front Line
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/female-soldiers-civil-war
Historian DeAnne Blanton discusses the crucial role that women played both on and off the field during the Civil War.
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html
Female Soldiers in the Civil War: On the Front Line
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/female-soldiers-civil-war
Historian DeAnne Blanton discusses the crucial role that women played both on and off the field during the Civil War.
Primary Sources
Women Soldiers in the Civil War, Part 2: Their Service Remembered in Library of Congress Primary Sources
https://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/02/women-soldiers-in-the-civil-war-part-2-their-service-remembered-in-library-of-congress-primary-sources/ Primary source sets: Women in the Civil War https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/women-in-the-civil-war Primary source set: Women in the Civil War https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/dpla-pss-098/primary-source-set-women-in-the-civil-war/ |
Classroom Activities
Women & The Civil War
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/lesson-plan/women-and-civil-war
Lesson Plan Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/women-in-the-civil-war-ladies-contraband-and-spies/
Mississippi's Forgotten Soldiers: Women in the Ranks during the Civil War Lesson Plan https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/lesson-plan/mississippi%27s-forgotten-soldiers