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Civil War Overview. Prologue: Selected Articles. Spring 1993, Vol. 25, No. 1 Women Soldiers of the Civil War, Part 2 By DeAnne Blanton © 1993 by DeAnne Blanton The Union CMSR for John Williams of the Seventeenth Missouri Infantry, Company H, shows that the nineteen-year-old soldier enlisted as a private on October 3, 1861, in St.

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Louis and was mustered into the regiment on the seventh. Later that month, Williams was discharged on the grounds: "proved to be a woman. This lady dressed in men's clothes, Volunteered [sic], received bounty and for two weeks did all the duties of a soldier before she was found out, but her husband being discharged, she disclosed the fact, returned the bounty, and was immediately discharged April 20, 1862.(9) Another woman documented in the records held by the AGO was Mary Scaberry, alias Charles Freeman, Fifty-second Ohio Infantry. Not all of the women soldiers of the Civil War were discharged so quickly.

AGO records also reveal that on August 3, 1862, a nineteen-year-old Irish immigrant named Albert D. Gettysburg National Military Park. Richmond National Battlefield Park. Antietam National Battlefield. Education & Resources - National Women's History Museum - NWHM. Clarissa Harlowe Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, was born in 1821 in Massachusetts.

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For two years as a young teenager, Barton helped care for one of her brothers who was seriously ill. This experience helped Barton overcome an acute shyness and became her primary medical training. At the age of eighteen, Barton began teaching school. In 1854, she ended her teaching career when she moved to Washington, D.C., to work as a recording clerk at the U.S. Patent Office; she was paid an equal salary to her male peers, $1400 annually.

Barton was working in Washington, D.C. when the Civil War broke out in 1861. Barton continued to aid wounded soldiers in Washington, D.C., and established a distribution agency of supplies. In 1869, upon the advice of her doctor, Barton traveled to Europe to regain her health. Upon her return home, Barton focused her attention on educating the public and obtaining support for the creation of an American society of the Red Cross. Additional Resources: Person. George McClellan Library of Congress Quick Facts Significance: General-in-Chief of the Union Army Place of Birth:

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Civil War Figures: Robert E. Lee. Matthew Brady « Matthew Brady was one of the most celebrated photographers in American history, best known for his photographs of the Civil War.

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A Master in the Infancy of Photography Brady was born on in 1822 in Warren County, New York. At the age of 17, he moved to New York City. He was interested in photography at an early age and had his own studio by the age of 18. In 1849, he opened a studio in Washington, D.C. Bringing Home the Brutality of the Civil War During the Civil War, Brady took numerous photographs of battlefields. Spurned by the Government. Person. Sarah Edmonds Quick Facts Significance:

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