CRRL History: Nurse, Soldier, and Spy: Women in the Civil WarLike this list

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• Civil War Wives

  the Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant

  Berkin, Carol

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  In the life stories of three "accidental heroes"--women whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had--one of the nation's premier historians offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Full Metal Corset

  Secret Soldiers of the Civil War

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  The History Channel explores the stories behind the many hundreds of women who disguised themselves as men and secretly enlisted to fight in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.

• Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent

  How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War

  Allen, Thomas B.

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  As he did in his highly acclaimed George Washington, Spymaster, author Thomas B. Allen digs back through historical records to present a famous historical figure in a new light. Readers discover that Harriet Tubman--well-known to them as an ex-slave…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mothers of Invention

  Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

  Faust, Drew Gilpin

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  When Confederate men marched off to battle, Southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nurse, and Spy in the Union Army

  Edmonds, S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn), 1841-1898

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  Originally published in 1865, this memoir is a record of events which transpired in military field camps and hospitals during the Civil War. Emma Edmonds tells the exciting story of her stint in the Secret Service as a spy, where she successfully…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Southern Lady, Yankee Spy

  the True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy

  Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963-

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  Northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South....Under the nose…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Fought Like Demons

  Women Soldiers in the American Civil War

  Blanton, DeAnne, 1964-

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  "Albert Cashier" served three years in the Union Army and passed successfully as a man until 1911 when the aging veteran was revealed to be a woman named Jennie Hodgers. Frances Clayton kept fighting even after her husband was gunned down in front…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Uncommon Soldier

  the Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers

  Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta, 1843-1864

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  Sarah Rosetta Wakeman disguised herself as a man and served in the 153rd Regiment of the New York State Volunteers as Private Lyons Wakeman. Her letters tell of her experiences during the war.

• A Woman of Valor

  Clara Barton and the Civil War

  Oates, Stephen B.

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  When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation