Lesson 3 Flashcards
What new roles did women take on
Farms, factories, schools, government, nurses
Led mission that freed enslaved people and disrupted south army supply line
Leading conductor of Underground Railroad
Spy for Union
Harriet Tubman
Told Confederate generals of Union troop movements in Shenandoah River Valley
Belle Boyd
Became superintendent of nurses for Union and recruited large numbers of women to serve
Helped persuade officials to let women work as nurses
Dorothea Dix
Gathered info about Union plans and told South
Convicted of treason
Rose O’Neal Greenhouse
Set up hospital for soldiers in Richmond, Va
Held rank of captain in Confederate army and was only female officer in confederate forces
Sally Tompkins
1 female army surgeon
Received the Congressional Medal of Honor
Mary Edwards Walker
Famous for working by helping wounded soldiers
Clara Barton
Fought for south at bull run and Shiloh
Confederate spy
Disguised herself as a man
Loreta Janeta Velázquez
North and South did what with soldiers they captured
Exchanged them
Why were prison camps set up
Because the system to exchanging prisoners broke down because of issues such as Confederate treatment of African American soldiers
Two prison camps were? What were there conditions
Andersonville and Elmira
Prisoners slept on ground, ate a teaspoon of salt, 3 tablespoons of beans, and a cup of cornmeal a day. Drank water from stream that was also a sewer. Thousands died of disease
Andersonville was Confederate
Elmira was Union
It was in New York
Prisoners had no blankets or warm clothes even in winter
Camps were crowded places and drinking water was dirty
As many as 1/2 of the men got sick and died
Two types of Democrats
War democrats
Peace democrats
War democrats
Supported war but didn’t like how Lincoln was running it
Peace democrats
Wanted war to end right away
Called copperheads because people thought they were dangerous traitors