1. Love of their country.
2. Desire to support the men who were fighting in battles.
3. Hatred against the Union forces who were occupying their towns and farms.
4. Relative ease with which women could move about and conceal medicine, messages and supplies.
Yes - even the women spies.
Because no one suspected women.
Some spies were women, who were not readily seen as being involved in the war.
they served as nurses,spies , and help get food for the soldiers
They were all spies
Yes - even the women spies.
there were three women spies belle boyd,elizabeth van lew,and rose o` neal grennhow.
Spies especially women spies helpes influence the out come of the civil war in depth they carried very important information to and from the soldiers without women spies the whole outcome of the war could have changed
Because no one suspected women.
Harriet Tubman
The women helped big time!
Women were important because theyi helped fight in the civil war, were spies and helped in the hosoitals.
Some spies were women, who were not readily seen as being involved in the war.
I..... what? do you mean during the Civil War? Yes, occasionally women of both sides were not necessarily spies, but they would pass on what knowledge they gained. It was mostly men who were official spies. also, it's women for plural.
Women may not have worked as clerks till World War I, but women worked as spies in many wars including the American Civil War and the Revolutionary War.
they served as nurses,spies , and help get food for the soldiers
There were several women spies during the US Civil War, including Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a prominent Confederate spy, and Belle Boyd, who spied for the Confederacy. Other notable women spies included Elizabeth Van Lew, who was a Union spy, and Mary Elizabeth Bowser, an African American woman who worked as a spy for the Union while posing as a slave in Confederate households.