Rose O'Neal Greenhow

There is a theme in “The Girl in Blue” by Ann Rinaldi. The theme is that gender does not affect skill level. “The Girl in Blue” is set in 1861, and is about a Michigan native by the name of Sarah Louisa. She is about to be forced to marry a man of her abusive father's choice when she decides to run away and join the army. She joins the army under the ruse that she is a boy and participates in the battle of Bull Run but her gender is eventually found out by her doctor and general. She is not punished

Women during the Civil War were thought to be those who supplied food and clothing for their men. Some made a difference by becoming nurses, yet some women strived for more. They wanted to be able to see first hand on the front line what kind of war they were really fighting. Women brave enough to risk their lives would disguise themselves as men and fight. Other women tried to find papers and try to understand truthfully what was happening, and the urge to know if they were winning took over their

Karen Abbott, a New York Times Bestselling author of “Sin in the Second City” and “American Rose”, Abbott reveal in her book “Lair, Temptress, Solider, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War” was published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins in 2014 contends that four major powerful women had endangered their lives to become a soldier spy during the Civil War. Karen Abbott analyzes based on a true story of how women 's roles are portrayed to accommodate political work, used primary sources

Rose O’Neal Greenhow was one of the most influential women in the Civil war. She was an undercover Spy from The Confederates because she believed that the South had a right to Secede from The United States and she was influenced by other people. She used to assemble information that the Union used to have and send it to the South. She then was suspicious after sending messages about The Battle of Bull Run. Therefore she was imprisoned, but that didn't stop her from sending information to South about

Rose O’neal Greenhow was a Confederate Spy in the mid 19th century. She was born Maria Rosetta O'Neale, 1813, in Maryland. She lived with her father, John O’neal, a planter and slaveholder, and mother, Eliza Henrietta Hamilton. Rose was the third of five daughters, and was very close to her older sister, Ellen. She grew up in Montgomery County, Maryland with her family. Her father died when she was a girl, and as a result, her mother moved Rose and Ellen to live with their aunt in Washington, D.C

and dedication to this war, this war’s results would have turned out to be really different, and the crucial part to this were the accomplishments of Woman Spies. The first woman spy to make a big impact to the Civil War goes by the name of Rose O’Neal Greenhow. This woman was born in Maryland, as a woman from the south she was offered to join the Confederate spy agency by Captain Thomas Jordan. Being from the south, she took the offer, she felt that this was her chance to be able to get back at the

Maria Rosetta Greenhow was an essential asset to the Confederate cause during the American Civil War. Her intel led to Confederate success at the Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Manassas. She was the most acclaimed female spy at the onset of the Civil War. Born 1817, in Montgomery County, Maryland, Rose was orphaned by her mother and father, John and Eliza Henrietta O’Neale, at a very young age. As a teenager, her aunt, Maria Ann Hill, welcomed Rose to live with her in Washington D.C. Aunt Maria

David Rizo Ms. Azouz U.S. History 21 November 2014 Women in the nineteenth century were beginning to let themselves go. When the Civil War began, many women were not content to sit home and set up charity events. Some women took a more active, romantic role during an the time of the war. Some of the women during the Civil War are best recalled for their colorful clothes, compassion, and holding up the house. But some women began joining the army, to be fight with their husbands and loved ones

shells. Union troops in the fort responded by opening fire. The war had begun. The Civil War lasted about 4 years and costed more than 600,000 American deaths. Harriet Tubman, a Union spy, Clara Barton, a Union nurse, Barbara Frietchie, Rosie O’Neal Greenhow, and Mary Surratt were few of the many women that make an impact in

Between 1861 and 1865 men were obligated to leave their homes and fight either on the union or confederate side of the United States during the Civil War. The Civil War challenged the ideology of the roles of women in the antebellum era since many women were given the opportunity to break free of their domestic duties. Rather than fighting with weapons and ammunition, women fought with seduction and sabotage. As a result, the roles of women in the north and south transformed tremendously and became