Revolutionary War Women

My favorite was a woman named Lydia Darragh. Darragh was a spy for America and she heard that the British were planning an attack when they occupied her home for a meeting. As soon as she found out what was happening, she sneakily took a message back to the American soldiers. To the British, she looked like a sweet lady with some flour ready to feed her kids, not a spy (140). When the British came to attack, the American soldiers were set for their arrival, all thanks to Darragh.

Many have argued should women be allowed to serve in direct combat for decades. Activists have argued that women should be allowed to serve in combative roles, but many governmental and political officials as well as American citizens feel differently. Arguments of women who have been serving in the military since the Revolutionary War, many disguised as men has exposed them to combat, death and even becoming POW’s. Many women have been serving beside their fellow comrades for years and are capable of doing so without causing disruption of the unit cohesion or combat readiness. The controversial issues will be discussed, but before that let’s provide some historical insight on how women’s roles in the military have evolved.

Women today have rights and are still fighting for more. But if this book were to be written before women rights had existed and before the women rights movements than the book wouldn 't have seemed so grotesque and unbelievable. In the day and age were raping your wife was okay, Margaret Atwood

She brought every tactic and ideal she learned from the duo to America and applied them in the association. According to Sheridan Harveys’ article "Marching For the Vote: Remembering the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913" from the Library of Congress, Paul convinced NAWSA to allow her to organize the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 and raised the funds for the parade herself. She strategically planned the march the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration to gain as much national attention as possible. On March 3, 1913, thousands of woman suffragists marched along Pennsylvania Avenue. Despite being verbally and physically attacked by those in opposition of women’s right to vote, the women marched on, demonstrating the lengths they will go to earn their rights.

With the men in the families fighting, many women volunteered to spy to help out their part of the country. To make sure that the other side did not know anything, both the Union and the South used many techniques and codes to keep their plans safe. From the different spies, to how women helped out, and the different codes and techniques used, spies played a great part in how the Civil war turned out. One of the most famously know spies from the Civil war is Belle Boyd. Belle was born in 1839, as a slave on the

Women played an outstanding role in this part of history. Women were used more as spies because they were seen as traditional - in the form cooking and cleaning skills - and being very innocent. Various women were chosen and gotten the opportunity of becoming a spy. In 1775, the first establishment of a spy agency was the Continental Congress. You could make it out to be the first C.I.A.

Some women were even spies because men would not suspect a woman to be in such a dangerous job so they would go undetected easily. Women spies gathered information about enemy plans, troop size, and supplies on scraps of paper or even fabric and sew them to blouses, coats or even roll them in their hair. Smuggling goods such as morphine, ammunition, and weapons they would just attach them to their hoop skirts, hide them in baskets, or even in dolls. Some thought they were also great to be spies because of their beauty would leave the soldiers with their guard down. Women spies would often eavesdrop during dinner parties, balls, though friends and connections.

They also had the option of being an overworked nurse in a filthy hospital, or being a “searcher”, a person that tries to find the cause of disease in the deceased (Gale). Since these two jobs were out of the question for many, most women decided to get married. The things that a housewife would have to do depended on her husband’s occupation, but most importantly depended on keeping him happy and satisfied (Gale). For example, a shopkeeper’s wife would have to keep account of all the books and keep a stable household, while a farmer’s wife would have to run to the market to sell cheese, eggs, etc (Gale). Women in the higher classes had more free time, which was spent on things like singing, dancing, and writing letters to one another (Gale).

She was in love with the bartender Corner, and had him to help her to kill Morales. Whenever Morales fell asleep, the dancer told Corner to inject him twice with snake venom. Enamored bartender has given him double shot by following her orders. Throughout the investigation, she decides to tell the truth to an FBI agent how the whole story was going on. She confessed that she happened to hit the ex-boxer with a nailer, to tell Corner to inject him with poison.

At that time, they took on roles such as nurses, seamstresses, and cooks. Some women worked as spies while others disguised themselves as men in order to serve in the fight. Over the years, women contributed as well as adapted to the many changes that took place in America and remained willing to take on new roles that helped make this country what it is today. Women began to serve officially in the military when the Army established a permanent Nurse Corps in 1901 (Women In Combat: Framing the Issues). While the Nursing Corps was recognized as an official unit, it was not regarded with the same status because women were given no military rank and did not receive the same benefits as men.