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<\/a>\nThomas Nast, \u201cOur Heroines, United States Sanitary Commission,\u201d in Harper\u2019s Weekly, April 9, 1864, via Cushing\/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nThe Civil War ultimately opened a variety of arenas for Union and Confederate women\u2019s participation. In the North, the United States Sanitary Commission in particular centralized women\u2019s opportunities to volunteer as nurses, donate supplies, and to raise funds at sanitary fairs. This 1864 image from popular periodical Harper\u2019s Weekly celebrates women\u2019s contributions on the battlefield, in the hospital, in the parlor, and at the fair.\n John Reekie, \u201cA Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia,\u201d 1865, via Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nDeath pervaded every aspect of life during the years of the Civil War. This gruesome photograph, taken after the battle of Cold Harbor, shows the hasty burial procedures used to reckon with unprecedented death. Dirty jobs like this were often left to black soldiers or freedpeople in Contraband Camps.\n\n\u00a0","rendered":" The American Civil War, the bloodiest in the nation\u2019s history, resulted in approximately 750,000 deaths. The war touched the life of nearly every American as military mobilization reached levels never seen before or since. The vast majority of northerners went to war to preserve the Union, but the war ultimately transformed into a struggle to eradicate slavery. African Americans, both enslaved and free pressed the issue of emancipation and nurtured this transformation. Simultaneously, women thrust themselves into critical wartime roles while navigating a world without many men of military age. The Civil War was a defining event in the history of the United States and, for\u00a0the\u00a0Americans thrust into\u00a0it, a wrenching one. The struggles and suffering of the Civil War endure through the words and images of the era.\n<\/p>\n Thomas Nast, \u201cOur Heroines, United States Sanitary Commission,\u201d in Harper\u2019s Weekly, April 9, 1864, via Cushing\/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Civil War ultimately opened a variety of arenas for Union and Confederate women\u2019s participation. In the North, the United States Sanitary Commission in particular centralized women\u2019s opportunities to volunteer as nurses, donate supplies, and to raise funds at sanitary fairs. This 1864 image from popular periodical Harper\u2019s Weekly celebrates women\u2019s contributions on the battlefield, in the hospital, in the parlor, and at the fair.<\/p>\n John Reekie, \u201cA Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia,\u201d 1865, via Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Death pervaded every aspect of life during the years of the Civil War. This gruesome photograph, taken after the battle of Cold Harbor, shows the hasty burial procedures used to reckon with unprecedented death. Dirty jobs like this were often left to black soldiers or freedpeople in Contraband Camps.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t Burying the dead<\/h2>\n
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