| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

They Fought like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. By DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. xvi, 277 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-2806-6.)

In my survey class about women during the Civil War, students are always skeptical when I mention women who disguised themselves as soldiers to fight in battle. In the past, to convince them, I showed them first a photograph of Lauren M. Cook dressed as an administrator in a North Carolina state university (courtesy of a Smithsonian Magazine article on Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Cook's first foray into the history of Civil War women soldiers). Then I put up a photo of her dressed very convincingly as a Civil War soldier. The students are usually floored, but they always have more questions about women warriors than I can answer. Until now. DeAnne Blanton and Lauren Cook's book is the first quantitative study of women in the war that provides answers to most of the questions students of the war raise about women on the battlefield. No scholar of the war can afford to ignore it.

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