| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Women on the Civil War Battlefront. By Richard H. Hall. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x, 397 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1437-0.)

In this work, Richard H. Hall brings his Patriots in Disguise: Women Warriors of the Civil War (1993) up to date, with corrections. It is informed by the scholarship of historians such as Elizabeth D. Leonard (All the Daring of a Soldier, 1999) and DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook (They Fought Like Demons, 2002). Drawing his evidence from various published accounts, regimental histories, military records, and newspaper stories, Hall also includes information provided by descendents of some of the women covered in his earlier work. Finally, he makes use of sources on the Internet, where Civil War buffs have made items such as unit rosters and soldiers' correspondence available. The result of his painstaking labors is a work that demonstrates, even after a full chapter devoted to debunking myths, that innumerable women, perhaps thousands, violated gender norms to serve as soldiers in the American Civil War. Moreover, he found instances where disguised women actually rose in the enlisted ranks and a few who advanced as officers. Some were discovered when they were wounded and others when they gave birth. These women came from the North and the South and among them were African Americans serving Union units.

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