The Women Soldiers Of The Civil War | History Honors 250
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Researchers at the National Archives have found evidence that at least 250 women dressed as men to fight in the Civil War, some motivated by ideology, some by a taste for adventure and some by the need for a job.
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In 2013, women were granted the right to serve in U.S. military combat, but for generations,
American women have taken up arms even in the country's deadliest conflict,
the American Civil War. This is History Honors 250.
Private Albert Cashier fought in several bloody Civil War battles and even escaped enemy capture.
Cashier was also one of many women who dressed and lived as men to serve in the Civil War.
Women fought and died alongside their fellow troops.
After the war, most of them went back to living as women. One unnamed soldier gave birth just a
few months after her last battle, but at least one continued living as a man. That soldier is
buried with full military honors under the name Private Albert Cashier.