Women in other roles

When their fathers , bothers or husband where gone. Most women would work in factories or farm fields.

In the South, many women had to assume the duties of the slaves,who had ran away of been freed.

In the North, women had to sewed and bake for the Union Soldiers. The women tented the wounded Union Hospitals .

But in the South , it was too poor, a Confederate once said “every house is a hospital.”