"Both the Union and Confederate armies forbade the enlistment of women. Women soldiers of the Civil War therefore assumed masculine names, disguised themselves as men, and hid the fact they were female."
The article I read was about how there were many women soldiers during the Civil War, there were roughly about 250 women serving the Confederate army. Not only did they join the army, but then did it in disguise because back then women didn't have many rights. Women weren't allowed to join the army. I thought this article was interesting because now the women have equal rights to men. Back then during the Civil War the women didn't get to/ weren't able to do much because of the fact that they are females. Reading this article makes me wonder how life would be like if us females didn't have the equal amount of rights as the men.
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