American Civil War spies

“Women at War,” (A&E Television Networks, 1994), 46:07 mins. The unsung hero’s of the Civl War are the many women that stepped up to the plate without being asked. Still today with little to no recognition women played a huge role in the civil war. The civil war also meant independence for woman also not only the African Americans. Clara Barton brought women out and wanted equality for all. She founded the American Red Cross and performed nurse duties during the Civil War. She was a teacher in…

The Civil War is something in American history that is held at a different standard than most things. It’s the one and only time we have ever fought against ourselves. The outcome of this war changed history forever. Have you ever imagined what our country would be like if the South would’ve defeated the North? In How the South Could Have Won the Civil War, Bevin Alexander explains that the South made a lot of fatal errors that cost them the war and if they hadn’t of made these errors, they…

old traditions forced on them and start a new era for women in America. The Civil War was one of the most gruesome wars America was ever involved in and women were a major part of the war on both sides. Women were involved on both sides of the war and thousands of women joined each side to volunteer as teachers, spies, factory workers, and nurses. Even though women did not have many rights, they were a big factor for the war. More than 400 women had disguised themselves as men in order to fight…

they Harriet Tubman is a hero without hesitation. Harriet Tubman’s legacy went from something only abolitionists acknowledged to something that the president of the United States will give a speech on, the opening line being “Harriet Tubman is an American hero.” (Obama). She won a national poll asking which woman should be the face of the $20 bill “with over 33% of the vote, beating runner-up Eleanor Roosevelt by 7,000 votes.” (Alter) The first national monument commemorating a black woman is…

The Civil War: Harriet Tubman’s Fight in Freedom The United States was still such a young country, not even a full century old, when the Civil War broke out. The U.S. had banded together and became independent of Britain, and now were on to face separate ideas and morals within their nation. Many people from both the north and the south would have a great impact in the Civil War and the outcome it would have on the future of the United States. One such person was Harriet Tubman, a…

men went to war. Little did they know women were out in battlefield also. Women wanted to be in the war so badly, they would dress as men, bondage up their breast if they had any, cut their hair, and change their names. The books, Liar Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Under Cover in The Civil War, by Karen Abbott, and They fought like demons: Women soldiers in the American civil war, by Deanne Blanton and Lauren M. Coor, describes what the women did while undercover in the civil war. In…

When the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker shut down her practice and headed to Washington, DC, where she found a city overrun with soldiers wounded during the Battle of Bull Run.[4] Walker believed that she had an obligation to act that inaction wasn't an option, Dante Alighieri wrote that “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” [5] She went straight to Secretary of War Simon Cameron…

Mexican-American War. It was even more strict than the Fugitive Slave Law. It addressed problems regionally, by making officials from the free states responsible for aiding slave catchers.…

During the Civil War, a lot of people played different roles on both the Confederate and the Union sides of the war. There were spies who used their seductive powers to get information out of the officers and women who dressed up as men to be accepted as a soldier 's. The Civil War influenced much of society by beginning segregation, secession, and gave rights to slaves. According to the biography on her website, Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City,…

Time and Scene: A Southern plantation house, at night. It is the spring of 1864, one year before the Confederate Army’s surrender at Appomattox. Brothers Earl and Paul, fighting on opposite sides of the war, have both died in a recent battle. Union General Creon has requisitioned the plantation as his command post and has declared martial law. A bugle sounds in the distance as two Union soldiers enter from the right side of the scene. The soldiers remove a Confederate banner that hangs from…