Women of the Blue and Gray : True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War

This books provides primary source accounts of women during the US Civil War. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant—the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln in strategy, from tending to the wounded on the battlefield to spiriting away slaves through the Underground Railroad, from donning a uniform and fighting unrecognized alongside the men to working as spies for either side.