Amazing Women of the Civil War: Fascinating True Stories of Women Who Made a Difference

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The Civil War is most regularly described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was once also one in which women demonstrated heroic deeds, selfless acts, and courage beyond measure. Women mobilized soup kitchens and relief societies. Women cared for wounded soldiers. Women were effective spies. And it’s estimated that 300 women fought on the battlefields, regularly disguised as men. The most fascinating Civil War women include:

  • Harriet Tubman, a former slave, who led hundreds of fellow slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad
  • Four hundred women who were seized in Roswell, Georgia, deported to Indiana, and vanished with out a trace
  • Belle Boyd, the “Siren of the Shenandoah,” who on the age of seventeen killed a Union soldier
  • “Crazy” Elizabeth Van Lew, who deliberately fostered the impression that she was once eccentric in order that she may well be an effective spy for the North

“The poor fellow sprang from my hands and fell back quivering in the agonies of death. A bullet had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through my sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder.” ?Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross

“We were all amused and disgusted on the sight of a thing that nothing but the debased and depraved Yankee nation could produce. [A woman] was once dressed in the full uniform of a Federal surgeon. She was once not good having a look, and naturally had tongue enough for a regiment of men.” ?Captain Benedict J. Semmes, describing Mary Walker, M.D.

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