The nurses and the medical departments on both sides of the Civil War played an important part in the life of injured soldiers. Covers the role of nurses in the war, including essays, photographs, and letters.

Women who travelled with units as vivandieres, with basic information on each and photo gallery.

Resources available online from the Special Collections Library at Duke University.

From Duke University, links to primary sources on the Internet that includes diaries, letters, documents, photographs and prints. Created as a supplement to the main site.

From Duke University, contains the Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers, Sarah E. Thompson Papers, and the Alice Williamson Diary.

Narrative on the 400+ women who served in combat during the Civil War, includes book references.

In the last few years, historians have become more and more aware of what was previously thought to be a limited phenomenon in the Civil War: the incidence of women disguising themselves as men and enlisting in the army.

Whether they were nurses, soldiers, spies, or participated in some other way, 19th Century women made their presence known during the Civil War.

A small site containing the names of around fifty (50) women who fought in the Civil War, in the guise of men. E-mail site-builder for more photographs.

A history of women in the military from the Revolutionary War to present day. Includes extensive information for military women, past and present.

It is an accepted convention that the Civil War was a man's fight. Images of women during that conflict center on self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, or brave ladies maintaining the home front in the absence of their men. This conventional picture of gender roles during the Civil War does not tell the entire story.