American Women In The Civil War

The Civil War, which is also known as “The War Between the States”, was fought between 1861 and 1865 in the Northern and Southern states. The war was fought between the United States and the Confederate State of America. The Confederate States of America was made up of eleven states that ended up leaving the Union in 1860 and 1861. These states that made up the Confederate States of America were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. The size difference between the Union Army and the Confederate Army was a massive difference. There was about 2,100,000 soldiers fighting for the Union during the war while there was 1,064,000 soldiers fighting for the Confederates
During this war, the United States thought it was wrong for the southern states to leave the Union, which is ultimately what caused this war. The Confederate States were defeated by the United States in
The Union and Confederate armies forbade women to enlist and battle in the war. Women would disguise as men in order to be able to fight in the Civil War. They were able to disguise themselves by cutting their hair extremely short, into a boy’s hairstyle, they would wear baggy clothing to help hide their womanly figure, they changed their names to a man’s name so there was no trace of being able to find that there were women fighting, and they also did the frontline army duties to help blend in with the men fighting in the war. There was about 400 to 750 women who fought in the Civil War and were known to share the same motivations as the male soldiers. It was hard to know the exact amount of women who fought in the Civil War at this time since they were not supposed to be fighting and they were not supposed to make themselves known as being women who were fighting in war. Men tried keeping women out of fighting in the war if they peaked interest since this was a man’s job and women could not handle fighting in a war, according to some men at this time period. People claimed women were not able to fight in the war due to being too emotional, not being strong enough, and not being able to handle the fighting and war lifestyle. Even to this day, men still outnumber women who are enlisted in the military, but it is more accepting for women to enlist if they chose to. Women were known to just be stay at