Introduction Believe it or not the Confederacy had less money and also fewer resources compared to the Union. That's when the women came in and did their part. They cooked, cleaned, made clothes for their soldiers. They would provided the necessary resources such as uniforms, blankets, and other supplies.They wrote letters to the soldiers as encouragement, Many worked as untrained nurses in makeshift hospitals. They would even cared for wounded soldiers in their very own houses. Even the wealthy women who relied on slaves for everything and had to do their own part as well.
Kate Cumming(1835-1909
Impacts Women's roles changed dramatically throughout the war. The absence of men meant that women were now heads of households. Women staffed the Confederate government as clerks and even became schoolteachers for the first time. At the beginning ladies weren't allowed to be nurses in the military hospitals because "sights that no lady should see." The situation got to the point that wounded men would die in the streets due to lack of medical attention. The only nurses allowed were Sally Louisa Tompkins and Kate Cumming.
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