History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2141 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Women in the War
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The idea
Women took over farms and businesses, organised ladies' aid societies to sew uniforms and raise money, and southern women nursed wounded soldiers in their homes.
In practice
Northern women volunteering for the United States Sanitary Commission, formed in June eighteen sixty-one.
Where people slip
The Commission inspected camps to reduce disease, the war's most common cause of death. Some women spied and some fought as men.
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