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Subcategories

• Civil War Personalities
• Genealogy
• Memoirs

Resources in This Category

• Civil War Nurses

  http://www.edinborough.com/Learn/cw_nurses/Nurses.html
  The nurses and the medical departments on both sides of the Civil War played an important part in the life of injured soldiers. Covers the role of nurses in the war, including essays, photographs, and letters.

• Civil War Women - On-line Archival Collections

  http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/collections/digitized/civil-war-women/
  From Duke University, contains the Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers, Sarah E. Thompson Papers, and the Alice Williamson Diary.

• Smithsonian Magazine - Covert Force

  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Covert_Force.html
  Narrative on the 400+ women who served in combat during the Civil War, includes book references.

• The Civil War: Women and the Homefront: Getting Started

  http://guides.library.duke.edu/civilwarwomen
  From Duke University, links to primary sources on the Internet that includes diaries, letters, documents, photographs and prints. Created as a supplement to the main site.

• Women In Uniform In The Civil War

  http://civilwarhome.com/womeninuniform.htm
  In the last few years, historians have become more and more aware of what was previously thought to be a limited phenomenon in the Civil War: the incidence of women disguising themselves as men and enlisting in the army.

• Women Soldiers

  http://www.angelfire.com/ny/anghockey/womensoldiers.html
  A small site containing the names of around fifty (50) women who fought in the Civil War, in the guise of men. E-mail site-builder for more photographs.

• Women Soldiers in the Civil War

  http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html
  A history of women in the military from the Revolutionary War to present day. Includes extensive information for military women, past and present.

• Women Soldiers of the Civil War

  http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html
  A three part article discussing women who served as soldiers.

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