This book is about the women who disguised themselves as men and enlisted in the armies of the Union and the Confederacy. [The authors have pieced] together the stories of individual soldier women, their experiences, and their motivation.-Introd.
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Explains how hundred of women assumed male aliases, disguised themselves in men's uniforms, and charged into battle as Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.
At least 250 women served-disguised as men-in the ranks of both North and South during the Civil War. After covering the major combat actions in which women served the authors reconstruct the reasons why women entered the armed forces: many were simply patriotic, while others fo…
Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional pi…
Explains how hundred of women assumed male aliases, disguised themselves in men's uniforms, and charged into battle as Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.