The True Womanhood

During the Civil War man had to volunteer to join the battle for equality and state’s law. This meant that woman no longer had to be “The True Womanhood” that meant that they had to work outside their homes. It opens a whole new world for them. This made a lot of woman volunteer in helping for the cause. In this essay, I will be explaining the ways woman made a difference in the Civil War. Woman who dressed like men. For a woman to be able to fight in the war, she had to talk, act and dress like man did. “There were just shy of 400 documented cases of women who served as soldiers during the Civil War” (Olivia Brown). An example of a woman who fought alongside with her husband was Frances Louis Clayton aka Jack Williams. She fought in The Battle of Fort Donelson for The Union. She served as a cavalry and artillery; while “In the service, she became an "accomplished horse-man" and a "capital swordsman"(Wikipedia). In 1863 Clayton was discharged from the army, “shortly after her husband's death. She told reporters that she was never discovered as a woman” (Wikipedia). There was another woman soldier who fought for The Union her name was Jennie Irene Hodgers aka Albert D. J. Cashier. “Cashier fought with the
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery from Maryland in 1849 she “. . .returned many times to rescue both family members and other slaves from the plantation system.” (Biography.com) Harriet “. . . Tubman volunteered for the Union as a cook and a nurse before she was recruited by Union officers to establish a network of spies in South Carolina made up of former slaves” (Smithsonian). She was also the first woman to lead a military expedition. “On June 1, 1863, Montgomery, Tubman and several hundred black soldiers traveled up the river. . . When they reached the shore, they destroyed a Confederate supply depot and freed more than 750 slaves”