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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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women served in the war as cooks and nurses.

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