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The 'Siren of the Shenandoah', Tessa and Alex

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The 'Siren of the Shenandoah', Tessa and Alex

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Belle Boyd was a women spy for the confederates.

"Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them. Belle was both, often within the same encounter, wheedling information out of Union officers while wearing Confederate garb, often to comic effect."

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"Dorothea Dix was the organizing force behind the enormous wartime nursing effort, an initiative that not only saved the lives of thousands of Union soldiers, but also helped open the door for women to work as nurses in post civil war civilian life."

Dix helped pave the way for integration of women nurses in the military and commercial fields, but she was strict and most of her nurses did not enjoy her company.

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Clara Barton was a woman who helped winded soldier in Civil war. She started the custom of burying and identifying dead soldiers. She eventually went on to founding the Red Cross. She explained how bad the conditions could be by saying, "scorched by the sun! chilled by the wave, rocked by the tempest...toiling day after day in the trenches."

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Rose O'Neal Greenhow - Melanie and Andrew W

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Rose O'Neal Greenhow - Melanie and Andrew W

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"I have no power to resist you, but had I been inside of my house, I would have killed one of you before I submitted to this illegal process."

Greenhow operated as a Confederate spy in Washington until she was caught and sent to the South.

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"She collected relief materials for victims of major fires that swept GreenCastle in the mid-1870s and played a leading role, along with Lucius, in what was called the woman's temperance crusade of 1873, in which small-town women across the Midwest occupied saloons in an effort to shame owners and patrons into sobriety"

Alice stayed inside the Sphere for most of the war, but finally broke out when she started to help fire victims and teamed up with her husband to start the woman's temperance crusade.

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"They need to be taught the right habits of living and the true principles of life.”

She improved refugee hospitals and opened a school in D.C. after being a slave in the south.

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General Butler's Woman Order -Jenna&Christina

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General Butler's Woman Order -Jenna&Christina

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"In July, Butler ordered a second woman named Anne Larue to ship island because she had worn confederate colors....Larue replied that "she felt very patriotic that day". Like other women, Anne stood up to Butler's control over women by rebelling.

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"as far as we can satisfy ourselves that persons are needy and deserving before we give them anything and give them what is adapted to their wants if we have it. Nothing further has been required me by those who have sent goods to me..."

Jacobs strove to assist the destitute and unhealthy. She received goods from outside communities who supported her endeavors.

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"All that river water could not wash out the bloodstains on the land, she thought, but what had been washed away was Louisa’s naïveté about the excitement and glory of fighting a righteous battle."

Louisa May Alcott left her family in New England at the age of 30 to become a army nurse in Washington D.C. She cared with great compassion for all of her patients and appreciated the sacrifices they made.

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"Though it struggled through to the end of the war, it proved a vital source of supplies and solace to the town’s soldie rs fighting and suffering far away."

Women created soldier' said societies to gather donations of necessary goods from towns and send them to soldiers.

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"I am as independent as a hog on the ice."

Women served in the war within the "sphere of domesticity

And also outside. They tended to the wounded and cooked.

But other women fought, some undisguised, alongside the men

most notably, Annie Etheridge and Marie Tepe.

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Once hear husband died, she invented the flare used on Civil War ships.

"Coston signals were burned, the wireless snapped out its frantic appeal for help"