by Sienna and Emily
 We are doing research on women soilders, and we found out that women were not treated very nicely. They did not have very many rights, so some VERY brave women decided to fight for their rights. So some of them dressed up as men and went to war. Most of their identities were found because they got sick or shot and examined, then their true identities were revealed. However, one lady went to the hospatiol five times and got examined but, her true identitiy never got revealed until she died. That doctor that examined her didn't do a very good job!
One woman, Sara Collins of Wisconsin was suspected of being female by the way she put on her shoes. There was a woman soldier and her name was Emily. She was a drummer at Look Out Mountain. There were also women for the Confederates. One of them enlisted with her husband. Her name was Mailindia Blalock. Also most woman went to war because they might have thought they didn't have equal rights or weren't treated with equal rights. Some women were not found out to be a woman untill they died. The Confederates had less woman soilders than the Union. There were also two girls who were discovered in October of 1864. Their names were Mary and Molly Bell. They had already served in the war for two years already. Their names in the war were Tom Parker and Bob Martin. Lizze Compton was enlisted for the war when she was 14. She served in seven different regiments until she was severly wounded.
 Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross was born on Christmas day in 1821 in Oxford Massechusets. Clara Barton was also a battle field nurse for the Union and for the Confederates . She drove through the battle field in a horse drawn wagon with a place in the back for hurt or sick patients. Clara's middle name was Harlowe, and Clara was the youngest out of five children. Clara's mother and father were abolitionists. Her father was a farmer and a horse breeder while her mother stayed at home and took care of the kids and the house. Clara had two brothers, Stephen and David and two sisters, Dorthy and Dolly. When Clara was young, she was shy, and when she was eleven, her first patient was, David when he fell from a rafter in the unfinished barn. Clara soon developed an intrest in nursing wich might have been inspired by her great aunt who served as a midwife. Clara Barton died at age 90 on April 12, 1812. Soon, Clara decided to start the American Red Cross.
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