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Most women remained at home, caring for children and family, and running the family home. Some women were able to keep businesses running. Most typically, women were part of a Sanitary Commission or church group, and worked to provide bandages, quilts, bedding, and hospital supplies for soldiers and hospitals. Some women dressed as men and joined the Army, but it is impossible to tell how many because they didn't want to be exposed.
Jennie Hodgers / Albert Cashier is a famous case. She enlisted in the US Army, fought the entire war, and then continued to live as a man for the rest of her life, even collecting a soldier's pension.
basically they were maid worked in factories etc.
Most women remained at home, caring for children and family, and running the family home. Some women were able to keep businesses running. Most typically, women were part of a Sanitary Commission or church group, and worked to provide bandages, quilts, bedding, and hospital supplies for soldiers and hospitals. Some women dressed as men and joined the Army, but it is impossible to tell how many because they didn't want to be exposed.
Jennie Hodgers / Albert Cashier is a famous case. She enlisted in the US Army, fought the entire war, and then continued to live as a man for the rest of her life, even collecting a soldier's pension.
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What was role of women at the Civil War?
16,000 people were women that were fighting in the civil war
What role did women play in civil war?
They were nurses
How did the role of women change in the civil war?
They were allowed to vote.
Facts about women role in the civil war?
Women were important because theyi helped fight in the civil war, were spies and helped in the hosoitals.
Was the Civil War the war that was helping to change the role of women?
It was partially to help change the role of women, it definately did help their cause though after they told the men they were fedup about how they were treated
How much did women get paid in the civil war?
Women weren't allowed to fight in the Civil War. They played another important role by tending to farms and factories while the men were out fighting.
Women's roles during the civil war?
Some women helped they came out while the civil war was still firing and they helped the men that were wounded the other women helped in some kind of tent as a hospital.
What was the women's role in the civil war?
.A constitutional amendment allowing women the right to vote.
How did the ecnomic role of women change during the civil war?
*Women took roles and entered profssions previously dominated by men.*
What role did Isaac Murphy play in the civil war?
What role did Isaac Murphy play in the civil war
How did the economic role of a women change during the civil war?
George Washington changed it because he thought it was weird.
What role did women play during the civil war?
cooking and cleaning. not much has changed since then, eh?
