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A 3 page paper which examines the role of minorities and women during the Civil War. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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But, in this war were also minorities and women, both fighting, and suffering the realities of the Civil War. The following paper discusses the role played by both minorities and
women during the Civil War. Minorities and Women During the Civil War In looking at various works that discuss the Civil War, including fictional stories, it is clear
that more information has come out in latter times concerning the role played by minorities and women in the Civil War. While much has been known about the few women
who did participate, through disguise and deceptive means, as soldiers or part of the fighting, most works from days gone by seem to address the plight of women in the
home. For example, in Stephen Cranes story Three Miraculous Soldiers there are women in a house, fearful of the potentially dangerous soldiers that will arrive. One character states that the
soldiers will come back: "Two poor helpless women! Your father and your uncle Asa and Bill off galavanting around and fighting when they ought to be protecting their home!(Crane, 1897;
41). This offers a simplistic presentation of women, albeit a very real one as well for many women feared for their lives during this time. In Ambrose Bierces story
the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man in the story is dying
and he envisions his wife: "his wife, looking fresh and cool and sweet, steps down from the veranda to meet him...Ah, how beautiful she is!" (Bierce, 1994; 40). In this
women seemed to represent something worth fighting for, and entities that offered hope and beauty in a world of death. In non-fictional
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