Women in the Civil War: Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others by Larry G. Eggleston
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Overview: More than sixty women who fought with or otherwise served the Union or Confederacy are featured. Among them are Sarah Thompson, the Union spy and nurse who brought down the famous raider John Hunt Morgan; Elizabeth Van Lew, the Union spy instrumental in the success of the largest prison break of the war; and Sarah Malinda Blalock, who fought first for the Confederacy and then for the Union as a guerrilla raider.
Others profiled are Dr. Mary Walker, a Union doctor and the only woman in the Civil War to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, and Jennie Hodgers, who had the longest length of service for any woman soldier, was the only woman to receive a soldier’s pension and the first woman to vote in Illinois.
Genre: Non-fiction; History
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