Woman in the war- Clare Q and madeline's artists statement and Primary documents.

A good site with good information about women in the war:
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html

a very good site on letters written by women in the war to soldiers, and diaries:
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/hearts/warwork.html

a site with information on Pauline Cushman, a women who dressed as a man to be able to fight in war, no one ever found out, even when she was in the hospital for bullet wounds!
http://www.footnote.com/page/778_female_civil_war_soldiers_spies/ 

A picture of women grieving for the soldiers to return

On the left is the women in her disguise, on the right is her normal look.

harriet tubman played a bg part in the civil war, she was a cook , a nurse , and an agent!







Madeline's Artist Statement:
Clare and I had our second quilt square topic on Woman in the War.Our topic really reflects on how woman helped so much in the war. They were Nurses, Cooks, woman who made uniforms, woman who made the flags and even spies! In our quilt square, we have an army lined up and one of the heads is circled with a line leading to a "bubble." In this bubble, there are things that define what woman did in the war. Like a spool of thread to represent the sewing of uniforms. A feather duster to represent cleaning. A bowl to represent cooking. A nurse hat to represent how woman helped as nurses. There is also a woman, to represent the things that WOMAN in particular, did in the civil war. Woman really helped in the war, without them, there would be lots more people that died, maybe worse uniforms, less flags and more battles lost. Men needed women in that time and still do even today. Woman are a big part of our society.




Clare Q artist statement:
My topic is woman in the war. In my piece you see a battle soldiers are lined up and a circle is drawn around one of the soldiers.  It shows that she is actually a girl in disguise. On the bottom it shows a bubble. There is a women with a speech bubble above her head, it has small pictures of a needle and thread, cooking utensils, and a feather duster, showing the things she does at home. Outside of the speech bubble, is a gun, a confederate flag and a nurses hat, showing what they do in the war. Women in the war is pasted in bold letters at the top. I think this piece shows that women did more then what they were thought of. The difficulties at home were a whole different part of the civil war. Women thought it was unfair that only men could fight, so they dressed like men so they could fight. Now women make up 91% of all army occupations today and 14% of all active army today. I enjoyed this topic because it got into a different perspective then what the civil war is normally portrayed as.