Civil War was something that would do nothing but only shed blood and lower the economy. But not for the American women. Men were at the battlefields there was no one to run the factories and the cotton fields. Women of America had a great opportunity to show their greatness and that they deserve respect in the society by filling empty fields and factories and also helping the men along the battlefield. The Civil War helped the efforts by women to improve their status in America.
Women were proud of their war time contributions, applauded themselves as strong, competent, persevering citizens, vital to the war effort. Few women however, saw the contradiction between their wartime self-image and their traditional place as the subservient sex. The war divided many families. …
