The Civil War affected many of American women lives during the years of 1861-1865. Women disguised themselves as men just to be able to do things men did. They played important roles at home and on the battlefield and it wasn't easy. Women were always told they couldn't do some of the things that men did. Women did not always have to stay in the house. The way women was involved in the war brought positive energy to others. The Civil War gave women chances to live their own lives without anyone trying to control it, earn their own money being independent, and take care of their own bills without the help of men. An article was published by a women who was fed up with how women had to live before women had the opportunity to do what
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They disguised themselves as men so they could fight in the Civil War. No one really could tell they was really women. When a woman was found dead wearing a confederate private uniform. Fighting in the war unknown by anybody was between four hundred and seven hundred fifty soldiers. They wanted to fight for Union and confederacy. It really was not hard for a woman to disguise themselves as men because of the fact it was many teenage boys long as you was eighteen. To avoid being discovered women cut their hair, bound their breast, and did not talk much. A woman name Sarah Rosetta Wakeman fought in the battle of pleasant hill, Louisiana. She joined the war known as “Private Lyons Wakeman” in the battle she became very sick and died at the Marine General Hospital in New Orleans. They still did not discover she was a woman til this day her headstone reads the name she went as in the battle. Another woman Sarah Edmonds went in as Franklin Thompson she was the second Michigan volunteer. She fought in several battles like the Siege of Yorktown, the Battle of Williamsburg, and the Second Battle at Manassas. She caught malaria and left the army to keep doctors from finding out she was a woman. When she got out they charged her as a deserter. She revealed herself to a few soldiers and so they helped her convince the government to throw out the charge of desertion. Even though it took eight years but she
They disguised themselves as men so they could fight in the Civil War. No one really could tell they was really women. When a woman was found dead wearing a confederate private uniform. Fighting in the war unknown by anybody was between four hundred and seven hundred fifty soldiers. They wanted to fight for Union and confederacy. It really was not hard for a woman to disguise themselves as men because of the fact it was many teenage boys long as you was eighteen. To avoid being discovered women cut their hair, bound their breast, and did not talk much. A woman name Sarah Rosetta Wakeman fought in the battle of pleasant hill, Louisiana. She joined the war known as “Private Lyons Wakeman” in the battle she became very sick and died at the Marine General Hospital in New Orleans. They still did not discover she was a woman til this day her headstone reads the name she went as in the battle. Another woman Sarah Edmonds went in as Franklin Thompson she was the second Michigan volunteer. She fought in several battles like the Siege of Yorktown, the Battle of Williamsburg, and the Second Battle at Manassas. She caught malaria and left the army to keep doctors from finding out she was a woman. When she got out they charged her as a deserter. She revealed herself to a few soldiers and so they helped her convince the government to throw out the charge of desertion. Even though it took eight years but she