women of the civil war: 3D Gallery

CLARA BARTON

Clara Barton was a nurse during the Civil War. Barton was known for setting up a system to provide medical supplies for troops. She traveled the battlefield on field ambulances. Called the "Angel of the Battlefield," Barton also organized searches for missing troops and identified many as dead. Barton used her war experience to create the American Red Cross in 1881. She led the ARC for the first twenty-three years before she resigned in 1904. Her legacy as a servant for humanity lives on through her Red Cross organization.

Dorathea Dix

Pauline Cushman

Pauline Cushman was an aspiring actress on her way to New York City at the start of the war. During the war, she was asked to serve as a spy. She worked for the Union Army side. Serving on the Confederate side to seek information, she was soon discovered and fired from the Union. She often had to disguise as a young man to gain the confidence of high-level Confederate soldiers. She discovered battle plans and kept them in her shoe. When she was caught: she was arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. She faked illness and got out of conviction.

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was a woman of many talents and jobs in the Civil War. She helped in many ways: including being an Underground Railroad instructor, a nurse, and a spy. Tubman was born into slavery, and her owners were abusive. In result of this, she suffered a head injury. Her owner attempted to sell her due to this disability, but the owner unexpectedly died, and Tubman escaped. She escaped via the Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. A few years later, she helped her family, and almost 100 others, escape from slavery through the Railroad. After all of this, she went down to South Carolina to provide help as a nurse and worked alongside General David Hunter as a spy for the Union Army.

Sarah Edmonds

Sarah Edmonds was a well-known woman on the Civil War battlefield. She disguised herself as a man named "Franklin Flint Thompson," the middle name possibly after the city she volunteered in, Flint, Michigan. She felt that it was her duty to serve her country. There were not extensive physical examinations required for enlistment at the time, and she was not discovered. First, Edmonds served as a male nurse on the field. When a friend on the field died, she volunteered to take his place. Although she was not technically enlisted as a spy, she journaled about her spying experience during the war. She did many interesting things to disguise herself going onto the enemy’s territory, including dying her hair and skin black, disguising as an Irish peddler selling soaps, or as a detective on the field. Her fighting had to come to an end when she caught malaria. Her fellow fighters considered her a fearless soldier.

Flatford Mill

Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]

The Fighting Temeraire

The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]

Liberty Leading the People

Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]

Ophelia

Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]

The Music Lesson

The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]

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women of the civil war