Spies+and+Other+Women+of+the+War

= Essential Questions = ==**What were spies during the war like and how did they do there work ? ** == **Who was very important women during the war and why?  If you were in the war, who would you like to be ? **

**__Women and Spies During the War__**
Spies were the most important on the battlefield. They went and found important information on the other troops movements. The women were better at spying because they didn’t raise the same degree of suspicion as the men did. Mary pitman was known as the confederate spy of Tennessee. She often slipped through union lines pretending to be a loyal citizen. She gathered information that she would only show to the commanding officer. Sometimes prostitutes visited for trade and were often mistaken for spies, but shortly after the battle of Nashville two prostitutes took a carriage out onto the battlefield. Most of these women have ventured out to far and have gotten captured. They were briefly jailed in Franklin Tennessee before being sent back to Nashville.

Women who wanted to join the war weren’t allowed to because it was known as a man's business. Sarah Morgan of Louisiana declared aloud, “O! If I was only a man! Then I could… slay with them a will.” Usually women stayed home to take care of the house and their children, but if they were helping at war they knitted socks and blankets, sewed shirts, pants, and underwear. All those supplies went to the soldiers at the front. War was required a sacrifice for the women. They had to be willing to spend the money and the time doing these things. Plus, being there shortened the length of separation from loved ones.

Dorothea Dix
She was from Boston area. she was famous for efforts and improving. she cared for prisonars and sick people for over two decades. Dix worked with Florence Nightigale (1820-1910) for guidlines. Her work was becoming famous for the united states as much as other Dix was named superintendent of women nurses in June 1861 Dix firmly Belives that that women were more suited for work Dix stint as its supervisor was a controversial one.countries.Dix was named supertendent of the year for women. Clara Barton- She comforted sick and dying soldiers she thought it was something to be brave Cara was also in the American red cross she would visit men and sick and dying people Barton devoted herself to the cause to help she served in the front lines later on the battle of Fredricksburg she walked across the bridge called pontoon. 