Women+and+the+War

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There wasn’t many women soldiers in the union army, there were less then 4000 women as nurses in the army. People did not like that women worked in hospitals during the war. People thought it was to bloody and gory for women. They especially discouraged southern women to work in the hospitals during the war because people thought they were jeopardizing their reputations. Some reasons women went to work in hospitals during the war because they were left without any help while their husbands were gone.=====

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Some of the women soldiers would join the war because of their husband, boyfriend, brothers, and or their father that were part of the war. When these women soldiers would have to go to the restroom they would head up to the woods or some private place so there wasn't any suspician since some men would do the same thing. Women soldiers were not allowed to be in war, but they managed to sneak in the war to fight against there country during the civil war. Men soldiers would not be able to find out whether their other soldiers were a women because they did not change their clothing to go to bed in their tents. These women soldiers did a great job at keeping up with the men you could not tell a difference.=====

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Spies were considered to be scoundrels, misguided fools and immoral traitors. When the fireworks erupted in Fort Sumpter in 1861, The Union and the Confederacy both gathered up intelligent people that would be able to track the enemy's moves. Since women were not allowed they were usually spies. Most of the spies were women, very few were men. Spies were the biggest traitors of them all. They would pretend to be on your side to learn all your moves and find your strengths and weaknesses and then just after they get what they want they'd turn on you. Women could not even bare to think that they might someday be engaged in espionage. When female slaves were caught, they were never threatened with death or anything to hurt them.=====

What was the important role women had during the war?
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Detroit: Gale. Gale Cenage Learning. Web. 17 Mar. 2010.
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