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Meet the Women of the Civil War
All the daring of the soldier: women of the Civil War armies by Elizabeth D. Leonard
Civil War wives: the lives and times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant by Carol Berkin
Daughters of the Union: northern women fight the Civil War by Nina Silber
Full metal corset [videodisc]: secret soldiers of the Civil War by Indigo Films for the History Channel; A&E Television Networks
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: the remarkable story of the friendship between a first lady and a former slave by Jennifer Fleischner
The mysterious Private Thompson: the double life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War soldier by Laura Leedy Gansler
Our Army nurses: stories from women in the Civil War by [edited by] Mary Gardner Holland; introduction by Daniel John Hoisington
Patriots in disguise: women warriors of the Civil War by Richard Hall
They fought like demons: women soldiers in the American Civil War by DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook
Wild Rose: a Civil War spy by Ann Blackman
Yankee women: gender battles in the Civil War by Elizabeth D. Leonard