The Northern Women In The American Civil War

The studying of the Civil War is always the priority in the American history. The research on the American Civil War mostly focused on the males for a long time, it took the men's experiences as basis, took the men's angle as starting point, so most Civil War history is dominated by males, it mentioned little about female's importance and particularity. It was evidently single-faceted. But the study of the women's problems in the Civil War, and the understanding of the Civil War from female's angle was to correct this deviation. The north and the south contended in the Civil War. The roles of northern and southern women were mostly different though they belonged to the same peoples. Because the northern women were progress, revolutionary, opposing the slavery, they played a particular role in the war.This text studied the Northern Women in the American Civil War according to the great significance of the American Civil War, the close connection between women and war, and the northern women's importance and particularity. The relation between women and war showed not only the women's contribution and pains, but also condition created for the women's emancipation in the war, which provided turning point for rebuilding themselves.This text discussed the relation between the Northern women and the Civil War from the following parts:Part I: Southern states consecutively broke away from the Union, the US were confronted with disruption danger. The northern women responded to the mobilization actively when the Union government summoned to war. Be confronted with the country's calamity, the northern woman put the patriotism on the primacy. They supported men to join the army actively, and prepared to participate the battle for maintaining national unification and opposing criminal slavery. In conflict, the great loyalties were showed by the northern women.Part II: Discuss the northern women in battlefield. Some of them joined the army dressing as boys, some took care of the wounded as nurses, others gathered information as spies.... Northern women participated the battlefield with outstanding courage and wisdom, they achieved their value in 19th century which dominated by men and the cruel war.Part III: Discuss the northern women in the external battlefield on following parts, including: The northern women needed to be confronted with economic battlefront after the males left, they needed to overcome difficulty in domesticity under siege, they needed to adjust small change of the family role so that they could balance family duty and patriotic responsibility much better. Besides, the northern women in the external battlefield made contribution with various forms: They composed organizations to serve the country, engaged in politic affairs, and call for slave emancipation.Part IV: Discuss the effect and counterforce between the civil war and the northern women. Northern women made contributions to the Civil War. And the status of women changed through the war. The Civil War rebuilt the northern women.We can know the American Civil War better especially and vividly. We can understand women's significance and particularity under specific and historical conditions. We can feel different women's social position, living conditions, contributions and pains in the war. It helps a lot for studying the Civil War, the American women, the relation between women and the war, the black emancipation, and the feminist movement.