The Changing Role Of Women In The Civil War

The Civil War took place during April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865. The two opponents to this war was the North which was referred to as the Union and the South whom was referred to as the Confederacy. The overall madness of this war was based on if the Confederacy was going to secede from the Union, and if the Union were going to remain as a whole based on their success. This war took approximately 4 years, but in those four years, thousands of bodies were piled up in the aftermath. However, more than 610,000 bodies were estimated to be found among the many battles that were within the Civil War. This war brought a plethora of changes to the United States such as the major effects that were brought to the soldiers. The war did not only affect the soldiers or those whom were …show more content…
Those women that were left behind had to cope with taking new responsibilities such as doing the average man’s work. This work is shown by managing the plantations, running the businesses that were left, and by harvesting the crops while their husband was out for war. After this the women were not too fond of their husbands enlisting into the war, in fact the women began to grow tired of the Civil war because they could not deal with the responsibility of their spouse. “I was sick of war, sick of the butchery, the anguish.” (Taylor 2009) While at war men would often write letters back to their families at home. When the women would receive these letters they would write back convincing their husbands to resign the war and return back home, women would also petition to the Confederate Secretary of War beginning for them to let their husbands return home. Although the Civil War separated many of the White families, it did the exact opposite to the Black families (Taylor 2009.) Black men were already separated from their families and were forced to be moved to different plantations and stated in the Deep