Women in the Civil War: extraordinary stories of soldiers, spies, nurses, doctors, crusaders, and others

Describes the active roles of over forty women in the Civil War, from soldiers and spies to doctors and nurses.

  • OCLC #: 51580671
  • ISBN #:
    • 0786414936
    • 9780786414932
    • 0786442344
    • 9780786442348
  • Call #: E628.E375 2003
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Staff Office-402 — E628 .E375 2003
  • Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, ©2003.
  • Physical Description: viii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Contents:
    • Women POWs at Andersonville Prison
    • Sarah Rosetta Wakeman: woman soldier
    • Jennie Hodgers: woman soldier
    • Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds: woman soldier, spy and nurse
    • Loreta Janeta Velazquez: woman soldier and spy
    • Frances Louisa Clayton: woman soldier
    • Frances Hook: woman soldier
    • Charlotte Hatfield: woman soldier
    • Sarah Malinda Pritchard Blalock: woman soldier and guerrilla raider
    • Fanny Wilson and Nellie Graves: women soldiers
    • Amy Clarke: woman soldier
    • Frank Martin: woman soldier
    • Lizzie Compton: woman soldier
    • Charles H. Williams: woman soldier
    • Marian McKenzie: woman soldier
    • Molly and Mary Bell: women soldiers
    • Notable women soldiers
    • Elizabeth Van Lew: Union spy
    • Rose O'Neal Greenhow: Confederate spy
    • Maria Isabella Boyd: Confederate spy
    • Antonia Ford: Confederate spy
    • Charlotte and Virginia Moon: Confederate spies
    • Olivia Floyd: Confederate spy
    • Mrs. E.H. Baker: Union spy
    • Rebecca Wright: Union spy
    • Notable women spies
    • Harriet Tubman: abolitionist, scout, nurse and spy
    • Pauline Cushman: Union scout and spy
    • Kady Brownell: Daughter of the Regiment and nurse
    • Anna Blair Etheridge: Daughter of the Regiment
    • Marie Tepe: Vivandiere and nurse
    • Notable Daughters of the Regiment
    • Emma Sansom: southern patriot
    • Anna Ella Carroll: Union pamphleteer and spy
    • Barbara Frietchie: legendary Union patriot
    • Civil War heroines
    • Sarah E. Thompson: Union spy and nurse
    • Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke: Union nurse
    • Clara Barton: Union nurse and Humanitarian
    • Civil War nurses
    • Women doctors in the Civil War
    • Women crusaders.
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