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Emerging Scholars: ‘Romance of the War’: Female Soldiers during the Civil War
March 26 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Emerging Scholars: ‘Romance of the War’: Female Soldiers during the Civil War
Stryker Center
Thursday, March 26 at 2 pm
Adults 19+
Although Civil War era law and customs dictated that armies were male-only spaces, hundreds of female soldiers joined up and fought in both the Union and Confederate armies by presenting as men. In this talk by Thalia Chrysanthis, doctoral candidate in history at William & Mary, learn what the public knew about female soldiers from contemporary newspaper accounts, and what these accounts and public perception of them reveal about nineteenth-century attitudes toward gender….more info
