Women of the Blue & Gray

Women of the Blue & Gray: True Civil War Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies by Marianne Monson

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North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant -- some of the most unlikely heroes of the Civil War were women.  Wives, mothers, sisters, and friends:  their purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy; from tending to the wounded on the battlefield to spiriting away slaves through the Underground Railroad; from donning a uniform and fighting unrecognized alongside the men to working as spies.  And each woman's experience gives us a truer, fuller, richer version of history.

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