| Louisa May Alcott |
Most famous for writting
Little
Women |
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| Ida B. Wells-Barnett |
A fearless anti-lynching crusader,
suffragist, women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker |
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| Clara Barton |
The first President of the American
Red Cross |
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| Carrie Berry |
(Her diary) See the civil war through
the eyes of a ten year old girl in Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Malinda Blalock |
She fought along side her husband as
a Union soldier |
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| Mary Ann Shadd (Cary) |
A free black who was later appointed
Army recruiting officer to enlist black volunteers in the state of Indiana. |
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| Katie Chase |
The "belle of Washington Society" during
the turbulent days of the US Civil War |
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| Frances Clalin |
Photographs as a woman and as a man |
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| Kate Cummings |
Began her work as a volunteer nurse
during the battlefield of Shiloh |
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| Pauline Cushman |
An actress turned spy |
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| Sarah Morgan Dawson |
A young Southern belle who lost everything
in the war, including two brothers who died the same week |
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| Dorthea Dix |
Was instrumental in establishing libraries
in prisons and numerous mental hospitals |
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| Sarah Emma Edmonds |
Disguised as a man, she fought in the
Second Michigan Infantry |
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| Rose O'Neal Greenhow |
One of the most renowned spies in the
Civil War |
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| Jennie Hodgers |
Fighting as a man, no person ever found
out her true identity -- she even voted in a presidential election before
women were given the right to vote |
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| Julia Ward Howe |
Writer, poet, leader for suffrage,
reformer, and author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" |
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| Harriet A. Jacobs |
An escaped slave who hid in a crawl
space in her grandmother's attic for seven years before escaping to the
north. (Used pen name of Linda Brent ) |
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| Mary Todd Lincoln |
Wife of President Abraham Lincoln |
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| Elizabeth Van Lew |
An eccentric Union spy |
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| Phoebe Yates Levy Pember |
A dedicated nurse who became the chief
matron of the 2nd division of Richmond's Chimborazo Hospital |
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| Emeline Pigott |
She would entertain Union soldiers,
only to get confidential information from them and give it to the Confederates |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Most famous for writing Uncle Tom's
Cabin |
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| Mary Surratt |
Accused, tried, and found guilty of
assassinating President Abraham Lincoln |
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| Mary Church Terrell |
A teacher with a cause |
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| Sarah E. Thompson |
Worked along side her husband assembling
and organizing union sympathizers |
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| Sally Louisa Tompkins |
Appointed Captain of Cavalry, making
her the only woman to hold a commission in the Confederate States Army |
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| Sojourner Truth |
Slave turned female abolitionist |
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| Harriet Tubman |
The most famous conductor on the Underground
Railroad |
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| Loreta Janeta Velazquez |
She fought in the Battles of Bull Run,
Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, and Shiloh until her secret was discovered |
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| Ginnie Wade (or Jennie) |
During the Battle of Gettysburg, she
was killed by a stray bullet while she was making bread. |
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| Sarah Rosetta Wakeman |
aka Lyons Wakeman |
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| Mary Edwards Walker |
Medal of Honor Awardee, Surgeon, Spy |
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