The Women Who Fought in the Civil War

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One of my favorite stories of the Civil War era is of Jennie Hodgers, and she fought as Albert Cashier. She enlisted in Illinois and she fought the entire Civil War without being discovered and ended up living out the rest of her life as a man for another fifty years. She even ended up receiving a military pension and living at the sailors’ and soldiers’ home in Illinois as a veteran. The staff at the home kept her secret for quite sometime, even after they discovered that she was a woman.

Even though it seems pretty outstanding that women were disguising themselves as men and going off to fight, it seems like actually they were accepted amongst their peers. This kind of loyalty to your fellow soldier in battle did in certain cases transcend gender. It’s pretty amazing; there was a lot of respect.

Women have always been with men battling for existance. When it was a male and female moving through the wilderness they fought the preditors back together. There are places in all cultures where women were on battle fields prior to the 1400's. The difference is how many women. Typically it was less than 25% of the men. Is that a crime in some way ? Of course not. When people where moving across the west of America women had way more responsibility for defending themselves and their families. There was no one to rely on when the spouse went into town miles away riding on a horse. Women of those days had to know how to use firearms. Frontier woman had to be strong & smart by default.