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Book

She went to the field : women soldiers of the Civil War

Call Number

  • 973.7 T8826 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Guilford, Conn. : TwoDot, c2006.

Physical Description

x, 149 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • Sarah Emma Edmonds, aka Private Frank Thompson, Union
  • Loreta Janeta Velazquez, aka Lieutenant Henry T. Buford, Confederate
  • Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, aka Private Lyons Wakeman, Union
  • Jennie Hodgers, aka Private Albert D. J. Cashier, Union
  • Frances Clayton, Florena Budwin, Mary Ann Clark, Mary Pitman, and other women soldiers
  • "Daughters of the regiment" : the role of vivandières in the war: Kady Brownell, Union; Annie Etheridge, Union; and others
  • Spies: Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Belle Boyd, Pauline Cushman, Elizabeth Van Lew, and Harriet Tubman
  • Wartime nurses: Clara Barton, Cornelia Hancock, Mary Livermore, Mary Anne Bickerdyke, Belle Reynolds, Sally Tompkins, and Kate Cumming.

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