Waubonsee Community College

All the daring of the soldier, women of the Civil War armies, Elizabeth D. Leonard

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-359) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

All the daring of the soldier

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Elizabeth D. Leonard

women of the Civil War armies

These are the stories of the women who worked as spies, as daughters of the regiments, or, disguised, as male soldiers to play their heroic part in the Civil War. Here are the stories of Belle Boyd, a proud Confederate loyalist and key player in Stonewall Jackson's struggle to hold the Shenandoah Valley, army woman Annie Etheridge, whose four long years of courageous work on the field earned her a Kearney Cross for bravery, Sarah Emma Edmonds, who enlisted as "Franklin Thompson," remained with her regiment as a much respected soldier for two years, and fought at Fredricksburg and elsewhere; and many other courageous women