women's rolls during the civil war by owen and julia

When the men went off to war all the women would be left at home to watch over the kids and farm.  But the few that didn't have kids or a farm to watch over were able to have larger rolls in the war.

The most common roll of a woman in the war that they would be proud of and the men would allow and not be against would be a nurse.  But not a doctor because the men didn't believe that th

ey were smart enough to be anyone respectable.  A few of the luckier women might become spy's for one of the sides of the civil war.  And because of the men thinking that they were to dimwitted and harmless to go against them which made them the perfect spy.  Some might become soldiers and join the the army to help fight for what they believed in.

But no matter what they were a women looking over her children,a 

nurse trying to save someone,a spy trying to get information or a women pretending to be a soldier to fight for what she believes in they all saw what a war could do to the Nation and how it could tear it apart and it showed them what the men thought of them and that they should fight for their rights to be apart of every thing and not just staying at home to watch over the kids.     

  Rose O'Neil Greenhow was born in Port tobacco, Maryland. She was a woman spy in the civil war. She was a confederate spy.As a leader in Washington, D.C. society during the period prior to the American Civil War, she traveled in important political circles and cultivated friendships with presidents, generals, senators, and high-ranking military officers, using her connections to pass along key military information to the Confederacy at the start of the war. Later rose O'Neil Greenhow was captured and was put under house arrest.

This is Frances Clalin. Frances Clalin known by her married name of Frances Clayton, was a woman who disguised herself as a man named Jack Williams in order to fight for Union forces during the American Civil War. She served in the Missouri artillery and cavalry units for several months. Frances Clalin and her husband Elmer Clayton were both born and raised in the north.


This picture is of one of the civil war hospitals where soldiers would go to cure diseases and have surgery.  The women siting on the bed is a nurse and they were usually known as the angels of the battle field because of how they cared for the soldiers and they looked through the soldiers eyes. 


Clara barton was a teacher when she was fifteen and then she became a nurse during the civil war.When clara was 11 she nursed her brother back to health from a sickness he had.Clara barton became assioated with the red cross witch later she founded in 1881 and became president of it for 22 years.