Louisa May Alcott - most famous for writting Little Women
Ida B. Wells-Barnett - was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker
Clara Barton - the first President of the American Red Cross
The Diary of Carrie Berry - see the civil war through the eyes of a ten year old girl in Atlanta, Georgia
Malinda Blalock - she along side her husband as a Union soldier
Linda Brent - (pen name for Harriet Jacobs) an escaped slave who hid in a crawl space in her grandmother's attic for seven years before escaping to the north
Belle Boyd - dubbed "La Belle Rebelle," she worked as a spy for the Confederacy and also served as a courier and scout for Col. John S. Mosby's guerrillas.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary - a free black who was later appointed Army recruiting officer to enlist black volunteers in the state of Indiana.
Katie Chase - the "belle of Washington Society" during the turbulent days of the US Civil War
Photographs of  Frances Clalin as a woman and as a man
Kate Cummings - Began her work as a volunteer nurse during the battlefield of Shiloh
Pauline Cushman - an actress turned spy
Sarah Morgan Dawson - a young Southern belle who lost everything in the war, including two brothers who died the same week
Dorthea Dix - was instrumental in establishing libraries in prisons and numerous mental hospitals
Sarah Emma Edmonds - disguised as a man, she fought in the Second Michigan Infantry
Rose O'Neal Greenhow - one of the most renowned spies in the Civil War
Jennie Hodgers - fighting as a man, no person ever found out her true identity -- she even voted in a presidential election before women were given the right to vote
Julia Ward Howe - writer, poet, leader for suffrage, reformer, and author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Mary Todd Lincoln - the wife of President Abraham Lincoln
Elizabeth Van Lew - An eccentric Union spy
Phoebe Yates Levy Pember - a dedicated nurse who became the chief matron of the 2nd division of Richmond's Chimborazo Hospital
Emeline Pigott - she would entertain Union soldiers, only to get confidential information from them and give it to the Confederates
Harriet Beecher Stowe - most famous for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mary Surrat - accused, tried, and found guilty of assassinating President Abraham Lincoln
Mary Church Terrell - a teacher with a cause
Sarah E. Thompson - worked along side her husband assembling and organizing union sympathizers
Sally Louisa Tompkins - appointed captain of cavalry, making her the only woman to hold a commission in the Confederate States Army
Sojourner Truth - slave turned female abolitionist
Harriet Tubman - the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
Loreta Velazquez - she fought in the Batlles of Bull Run, Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, and Shiloh until her secret was discovered
Jenny Wade - during battle, this young lady made bread for the Northern troops until she was hit by a bullet
Sarah Rosetta Wakeman - aka Lyons Wakeman
Mary Edwards Walker - Medal of Honor Awardee, Surgeon, Spy
Flags of the American Civil War
Historical and military map of the border and southern states
Map of the United States in 1895
Bibliography