Women Soldiers In The Civil War Summary

“They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in The Civil War” focused its attention around about 250 individual ladies who disguise themselves as men and fought along with their counterpart in the Civil War. Commonly, when you think of women and war together in the early years, your mind would center around them being self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave women that would maintained the home front the absence of their men. The idea of the gender roles does not tell the entire story that men were not the only ones to march off to war and that women bore arms and charged into battle along with them. Authors DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook did about ten years of research of these phenomenon Civil War soldiers. The women soldiers never told their own stories and while looking for details about them, the authors had to use military records, government documents, regimental histories, diaries, memoirs, and along with the works of fellow historians to piece together the stories of these women soldiers.
But why weren’t women
How were they capable of not being detected as women and if they were, how were they treated? With the research and studies that Blanton and Cook did, they revealed the answers to these questions. The life of a Civil War soldier was filled with more than just drilling and marching. It was full of responsibilities, both dull and dangerous, and the women soldiers performed all of them alongside their male comrades without asking for special consideration because of sex. Besides fighting on the frontline, there were different military occupations for soldiers to enlist in. For instances, some joined the medical services like Frances Jamieson also known as Frank Abel. She left the Union cavalry after the death of her husband. Her responsibilities included the grim task of assisting with amputations as well as other surgical nursing. Other females held every rank from musician to