The Impact of the American Civil War on Women

Abstract

While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 determined what kind of nation it would be. Because of that, The Civil War was the central event in America's historical consciousness. It created new roads for women's lives because the American Civil War affected ladies' roles and it was a point of change. Women were participated in the war as nurses, soldiers, spies, and combatants. Like Clara Batron, Luisa May Alcott, Sarah Emma Edmond, and Mary Edwards Walker…etc. The absence of men obliged women to have new responsibilities. However, their social status changes too during and after the war. In our work, we detailed all of these changes and impacts. In many ways, the conflict's central issues – the enslavement of African Americans, the role of the constitutional federal government, and the rights of states. From the first chapter until the third, we minimized the research as possible to be so clear and understood by all levels, because in talking about a central part of society who is women many scholars wrote books and articles, even the soldiers themselves, they wrote diaries during the war to be a proof of their struggle. The work includes; first, an overview of the civil war, then, enlightenment to women's role before, during, and after the civil war. Moreover, the war entered the American houses and how ladies face these hard conditions that she was obliged to front. and be a member in the Confederate or the Union army and participated on battlefields .in addition to that, southern and northern women were similar and different in many cases of facing the life of war and the African American ladies who had an essential part in the war did their duties as the white one's because of that the war ended with fundamental changes in US Women history.