Books in Young Reader's Hist- Civil War series

From slave women to abolitionists, fund raisers, spies, and even soldiers, courageous women such as Angelina Grimke, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Clara Barton played fascinating—and vital—roles in the Civil War. Drawing on diaries and letters and illustrated with vintage photographs. A Separate Battle reveals how women influenced the course of the Civil War—and transformed their own lives.“I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well. . . . And aren’t I a woman?”—Sojourner Truth An NCSS-CBS “Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.An ALA Notable Book

Whether privileged ladies or former slaves, women in the North and South worked as nurses, spies, and volunteers in aid societies; they even fought battles posing as male soldiers. These indomitable women broke taboos, developed strategies to help feed and clothe the soldiers, cared for the wounded, and took over dangerous jobs on the homefront. The impact their presence made will engross and enlighten the reader.