American Civil War spies

When Americans learn about the civil war, they would never expect how much women helped. Women helped a lot. Women would be running homes and business's without husbands, smuggling objects, being nurses, spying, running charities and even disguising themselves as soldiers. As the war progressed, women started to stray from their traditional feminine roles. An important role women did in the civil war was being a spy, there were about 100 spies ("The roles of women").Women spy's would…

The Civil War was a very rough war, and known as the “bloodiest” wars of all time, and still is today. Many people lost their lives, family members, and friends. Members on the North and the South had a job and if one didn’t do their responsibility, many could die. You either knitted clothes or blankets like most women did, or like some, became a spy. You could’ve became a soldier like many teenagers did and later African Americans did to. You could be a nurse, and help cure the sick, or like…

Going into the Civil War, the North and the South made strategic plans to help them win the war. The North had many advantages going into the war, and some of those advantages include a larger population, more industry, more abundant resources, a better banking system, railroads, a large navy, and they also had Lincoln’s dedication. The South had advantages as well. Some of those advantages include fighting in familiar territory, and the South had better military leadership. The main goal for…

When Elizabeth Van Lew, a famous Northern spy during the Civil War, died on September 23, 1900, she left behind a powerful summary of what it is like to be a spy on her graveyard. It reads, “She risked everything that is dear to man- friends, fortune, comfort, health, life itself, as for the one absorbing desire of her heart, that slavery be abolished and the Union be preserved.” (Zeinert 147) This quote draws attention to the extent to what one does as a spy. It highlights the costs and…

Throughout the Civil War both African American men as well as women contributed towards the Union’s victory against the confederacy through the roles of fighting, spying, and nursing. Although the participation of African Americans within the war was controversial at first, the help acquired from fighting wars, spying, and even nursing was handy for the North and pushed the nation a step closer towards victory and success. The involvement of African American’s participation within the war was at…

Harriet Tubman was an African-American anti-slavery worker, and humanitarian. She was also a Union spy during the American Civil War. She was born into slavery but she escaped. During her life, she made nineteen trips. She helped more than 300 slaves escape.She used the Underground Railroad. When Tubman was a child in Dorchester County, Maryland, she was whipped and beaten by many different masters. When she was very young, an angry overseer threw a heavy metal weight at another slave. The…

The lost cause monument that I chose honors an incident called “Andrews Raid.” The actual monument is an “American” type steam locomotive engine named the “General.” The engine operated on the Western Atlantic Railroad line and serviced both freight and travel between Atlanta, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. According to Russell S. Bonds in Stealing the General, “Chattanooga was an important rail junction that controlled food and supplies coming from the dep south headed to the…

Harriet Tubman was an american woman who escaped slavery in the south, and became a leading abolitionist. Harriet Tubman successfully escaped from slavery in 1849, but returned many times to help rescue her family members, and friends. She led thousands of slaves to freedom as a conductor of ‘The Underground Railroad’. The Underground Railroad was a secret network of safe houses. When Tubman escaped, she feared that her family would be further severed, and feared for own her fate and life. The…

Emancipation Proclamation is thought to have been a war strategy. People believe this because when Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, he made slaves free only in confederate states. This strategy hurt the south and the plantation owners that lived there. By taking slaves away from plantations, the south became limited on resources. This weakened the confederacy which gave the north a better chance in the war. During the course of the Civil War, Britain relied on the south for crops…

During the time of the Civil War, women expanded their roles from being mainly focused on their homes and families to stepping up to help with the war effort for the first time in history. They had new responsibilities and priorities beyond being mothers and wives. Women contributed to the war effort supporting either the Union or Confederate army. Meanwhile in the North, women formed ladies’ aid societies in order to maintain supplies for the Union troops. For example, women provided food for…