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once and for all with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. All these things might be true but very often the roles of women, blacks, and the white men fighting are forgotten. Every person in every country
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can relate to the battles Americans faced in the mid 1860s. The U. S. Civil War showed slavery would no longer be tolerated, setting a precedent around the globe of human equality. When the United States Civil War is spoken of, the real stories behind the action are often forgotten and misinterpreted.
Summarizing Drew Gilpin Faust, author of “Mothers of Invention,” when Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted responsibilities that they were very unaccustomed to doing. Faust offers in her writings, a picture of more than a half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of crisis. Women of the plantations began to direct their husband’s farms, providing for their ...

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interview). Everyday field nurses would impact the war by saving the lives of soldiers who needed serious and quick medical care. The U.S. Civil War would have resulted differently if it weren’t for the many females who decided to put their efforts into the war.
Even though it was considered wrong and illegal, over 400 women fought during the Civil War (Carrigan, personal interview). Many women in the United States had strong feelings toward this revolution and fought alongside their husbands in this four-year war. However, because the Civil War fell into a time period of great prejudice and stereotype against women, any female caught fighting was ordered by law to leave the ...

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