Civil War: The Roles Of Women In The United States

During this time, Men were the ones who would enlist in the war. All the men in the family would go out and enlist themselves into the war to help defend what they thought was correct. With that being said, the women were to remain at home with the children. Although women were to stay home doing the average duties as a house wife some wanted to be with their beloved husband. As a solution women would join the battlefield grounds as nurses. These nurses who were also wives to soldiers had the opportunity to be close to their husbands without feeling the emptiness of not being by them. Most of the houses in the State of Virginia did not have any insulation due to the fact that the war was being fought in that state. This means that families and residents were able to witness the mass devastation that occurred in their state and some even in the streets in which they lived in. …show more content…
The Civil War brought many sorrows to the families of soldiers and to the citizens of America. Some soldiers were frightened that they would never able to fulfill the needs of their family. They knew by enlisting in the war that the risk of not seeing their family was at high stakes. “… The Union’s threat’s to his family’s livelihood and privilege” (Taylor