WHO WAS IN THE WAR BESIDES MEN?
BY: TRISTIN MARIE
BEING IN THE WAR
The women where a part of the civil war.With tens of thousands of men in the service, new responsibilities fell to Texas women. Many homemakers and mothers also ran plantations and family farms, worked in plants, made uniforms, crafted clothing of
homespun cotton, and promoted patriotism. Some women aided the military effort ass spies, gunrunners, and nurses. A few, disguised as men, even served as soldiers.
WILLIAM AND MALINDA
SMITH ACQUIRED
400 ACRES OF FARMLAND
IN GRIMES COUNTY
IN 1854. AT THE ONSET
OF WAR, WILLIAM JOINED
THE CONFEDERATE ARMY,
AND WHEN HE DIED OF
INFLUENZA IN 1864,
MALINDA ASSUMED SOLE
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
FARM AND FAMILY.
WITH THE AID OF HER
CHILDREN AND FORMER
SLAVES, THE FARM
SURVIVED WAR AND
RECONSTRUCTION TO BE
PASSED ON TO LATER
GENERATIONS.
Where women in the war? Well yes they where.
Did they discise themselves? Some did but some did not.
Did women do the work of men like farming? Yes they do because they would not have good farm land and crops.