Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-140) and index.
Contents:
Sarah Emma Edmonds, aka Private Frank Thompson, Union -- Loreta Janeta Velazquez, aka Lieutenant Henry T. Buford, Confederate -- Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, aka Private Lyons Wakeman, Union -- Jennie Hodgers, aka Private Albert D. J. Cashier, Union -- Frances Clayton, Florena Budwin, Mary Ann Clark, Mary Pitman, and other women soldiers -- "Daughters of the regiment" : the role of vivandieĢres in the war: Kady Brownell, Union; Annie Etheridge, Union; and others -- Spies: Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Belle Boyd, Pauline Cushman, Elizabeth Van Lew, and Harriet Tubman -- Wartime nurses: Clara Barton, Cornelia Hancock, Mary Livermore, Mary Anne Bickerdyke, Belle Reynolds, Sally Tompkins, and Kate Cumming.
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