Female spies helped share Civil War secrets from both sides. Learn more about their remarkable efforts on We Are the Mighty.

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the Union Army and end the rebellion in the ...

The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg has expanded its Women at War exhibit.The display highlights the essential contributions of women during the war, both on and off the battlefield. Women ...

Prologue : a true-hearted Union woman : Lydia Bixby's civil war -- From harvest field to battlefield : rural women and the war -- Rumors of relief, stories of displacement -- Bodies out of place : ...