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Mainly women were nurses, but they also housed troops, spies, laundresses, vivandieres, sanitary and Christian commission workers, newspaper writers, and undercover soldiers. One ex-slave spied on Jefferson Davis by working for him as a maid! Women played a big role in the Civil War; if there weren't women nurses, many more men would have died.
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What roles did the women serve in the civil war?
they served as nurses,spies , and help get food for the soldiers
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